The short deck chevy thing got me thinking, I would like the siamese bores, I was thinking of buying into one for that price, still a little high but whatever... then the special un-obtanium intake for a 9 inch deck, no 4.25 crank is going in with any reasonable R/S ratio or pin height, no distributor hole, special timing cover, 60mm cam tunnel adds an aweful lot to the cost of a cheap block.