No one who wants reliability and decent ring and gasket sealing and not have to run train tunnel bearing clearances builds 600 HP NA with a stock block.
All you do is end up with more compromises.
BTDT and that’s a fact.
Can you garbage can something together. Sure. But it’s a compromise built on compromises.
Of course, all of us who know this are just stupid fuckers that love to waste our money to look back assed on a forum.
Or maybe, just maybe we’ve done it both ways and the OE block is stepping over donuts to pick up dog ****.
Mmmmm, dog **** is good.