Have you done a stroker in 2017? I imagine it is even more in 2018. I had a stock 340 short block built and heads done separately 3 years ago and it cost $5200 including parts by a very good shop then I assembled the rest. Hard to find cheap decent pistons and pretty much every part is twice what it used to be. Machining, buying parts, and assembling engines nowadays ain't cheap!
The funny thing about science is that if you change one miniscule parameter you change the entire outcome to the way you want it.
