Just saw a '72 340 block w/main caps for $1195.00 are you shitting me..someone needs to start re-casting 340 blocks at a reasonable price they'd make a killing!!!
I was going to do a new AMC block before Covid killed off my business partner. At that time we were investing $150,000 just to get started Plus we had to sell 100 blocks just to break even on the first go around. There is more than you can ever imagine with engineering, patterns, machining fixtures, machining. If it was easy and cheap you might see some cool products, but it's not easy or cheap to do it.
That's why all these low volume, custom blocks are selling for $6500 new
