build strokers or buy them

You get what you pay for Buddy , you want to daily drive a $3500 stroker go ahead , you will be building another next year , people are trying to tell you not to cheap out on the build with shyte parts and cheap work ,build it right the first time and pay once , we have a couple of very reputable builders around here who will build you a good motor for between 6k-7k thats what it costs for proper parts and labour the base price for my build was $6495 plus dyno break in and tuning , plus head porting , plus some extra bolt ons and i was just north of 8k for more power and torque than you want but this motor has been back and forth across Canada twice and is going again this summer at more than 10k miles round trip each time with no issues . Try that with a $3500 blueprint stoker that is going to show up untested ,untuned without proper break in .

What about building a motor yourself? You know for the mechanically inclined person.

You can build your own low HP (1 HP/CI or less) stroker long block for $3600 ($3595). It will be nothing fancy and use all stock based parts. And with stock based parts re-used from original motor. Re-use stock heads with daily driver nothing fancy valve job.

And it's not going to blow up within 1 year.

I don't see why this "Blueprint" company's 408 stroker would be any less reliable than thier 360 motors. Not saying either motor is any good.

It's just a 0.420" extra stroke. If you had a Scat 3.58 crank next to a scat 4.00 crank you couldn't see the difference. But somehow people think Rocket Scientists need to be called in.