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Old 09-14-2016, 03:10 PM
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Default Re: Cracked Block - How bad is too bad?

We just did an LS6 engine restoration for a customer with a windowed block. He shipped the block to Europe (not as expensive as you would think) then to an engine builder in California and finally onto me. Don't quote me but I thought he said between the boat ride and cost to fix it, it was around $2000. The engine builder ran the engine hard on the dyno with no issues and best of all, I could not even tell where the block had been damaged when I got it back. There are many people that can fix these state side so no need to send it overseas but that is where the customer chose to send it. The point to all of this is, if you can save it do so as total cost to repair, rebuild and restore this engine was less than a new crate motor would cost and he still has his original numbers matching car.
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