5.7 engine build
Yeah, for my 4 speed carb conversion swap I've got it down to around $3000 to get the car running (hopefully). There are a few things I still need to double check and probably add in that I've missed, but you can figure probably around $4000 to be safe for a swap. You can knock it down a fair deal by going with stock exhaust, but that's really up to you. The main reason I'm really even considering it is the potential of the new hemis. I've found it to be quite a challenge to make a 450 hp small block that will be drivable on the street for a reasonable price, but you can hit 400 hp with just a cam on a stock hemi. The stock heads flow better than most high performance race small block heads, so there's more room to go up in power later.