It's really no problem....it's just that the situation hasn't changed from several months ago.

The block isn't sold bare any longer, so it has to be a short block assy. As painful as that may be, at least there are about a dozen of them readily available.

Same with heads, it is no problem getting them, there are about a dozen of each part number available. But they are not sold bare. For anything other than a stocker the Eagle and Apache heads seem to have taken over.