Thank's for your unsolicited negative as usual opinion. The ritter is 3450 before you do anything including shipping. The guy suggested maybe use the poly block for a high hp street block. And he is correct. I only compared the 250 poly cost to the 4000 PLUS R block. Everything else I compared to La engines. Stop going into conversations with such negative outlooks. If you don't know how to stuff a poly in a 67 A body and arent helping with the poly build.