Total "bill of material" for Aluminum head swap / Advice on where to save $ welcome...

Add:
New timing gear set $150 ish
Hardened pushrods $250 ish
Car oil pan $??

I just did a 5.9.

$400 for the engine
Tore it down and had a machine shop do all new rings, bearings, hone bores, and polish crank.

Then I did the following:
Edelbrock heads
Sent my cam to Oregon Cam Grinding for a regrind ($163) ( he's out of cores)
Double roller timing set
Hardened pushrods
Roller rockers
Edelbrock Air Gap intake
Used 750 carb
All new gaskets
Doug's headers
Torque converter

I quit counting at $5200.

But I got headers ($750 on sale), and a custom PTC torque converter ($525). .

I got to thinking the same thing about a Blueprint engine but i really wanted to do my first build.