Someone needs to start re-casting 340 blocks
I did a 427 inch SB a few years back using a Mopar 340 resto block. That was a nice block, kind of heavy and had a few weird things going on, but seemed like a really nice casting. My spreadsheet says I paid $1457 for the block. Probably spent another $1000 in machine shop time fixing stuff. It would be interesting to find out why Mopar stopped making them. They had the tooling in place and it was probably paid for but sales must have been too low to keep production going.
I did a 427 inch SB a few years back using a Mopar 340 resto block. That was a nice block, kind of heavy and had a few weird things going on, but seemed like a really nice casting. My spreadsheet says I paid $1457 for the block. Probably spent another $1000 in machine shop time fixing stuff. It would be interesting to find out why Mopar stopped making them. They had the tooling in place and it was probably paid for but sales must have been too low to keep production going.