Time and money are interchangeable. MM most likely doesn't have enough cash to speed the project up so they are doing what they can when they have the money to fund it.

If Ford wanted to release a new FE block they could have it on the market pretty quickly but they would throw 10 engineers and several million at it. Projects go pretty fast when you have lots of cash to grease the skids.

I am smarter than that. Starting from scratch tooling and core boxes, plus getting the casting process right takes TIME. Just because the first castings were cast 18 months ago, does NOT mean a single one of them was usable. After that run, any number of things may have needed to be changed. If that was tooling or core boxes, that is not a "shelf stock" item, nor are they cheap.

Make it like before...........so you mean with weak main webs, core shift and questionable oiling? Or do you mean with a max 4.380 bore, no provision for bigger cam, higher location, or bigger lifters. And two bolt main?.........gotcha. How many are YOU in for like that at $3500 a pop

I want a stock block Hemi (more than strong enough) to replace the beat to death pieces i have now. If they want a 2000 or more hp engine, do billet, why waste time on an inferior design, just beating a dead horse. All those getting started processes do take time, but any problems-changes should be done before the first casting, heck there's plenty of materials they can use for the first prototype instead of cast iron.
Forgot to add, back in my shop class in the mid sixtys the shop teacher had signs posted around to make one think. The one I remember the most was the 5 P's, proper planing prevents poor performance. Over the years I've learned how true that is in everything.

That reply shows you don't know jack. Be in a business for 45 years where you make a new product almost every week, then get back to me. Its like talking to 16 year old dropouts.

Are those products made for a narrow market like Mopar blocks?
I would be surprised if Mopar parts make up 10% of the performance market.
All businesses/manufacturers have to make new products & if there's no R.O.I. that product is dropped.

"That reply just states how little you know about what is involved in producing a cast block."
That reply shows you don't know jack. Be in a business for 45 years where you make a new product almost every week, then get back to me. Its like talking to 16 year old dropouts.

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Let me say this first, I'm not posting to hurt anyone's feeling, just trying to pass on what I've learned over the years. ALL R&D is done before the first product is made whether it be cupcakes or space shuttles, no mater what the market is. There should be only two problems after the blocks where cast. 1- shoddy casting, In which case find someone better. 2- bad machining, find someone better. If you have to change something, R&D wasn't done properly to start with. Things fail because people get in over there head and did not think it through , know your limitations.
If you can't make a dime, don't start it, that's part of R&D.

Right. Because no product in history has ever been recalled over bad R&D.

Heres the info i just got from the guys at muscle motors take it for what it is.........heres the response i got asking about there low deck block.

Yes its true. We will have a machined block next weekend at the Monster Mopar show @ Norwalk. We will also have them at the Mopar Nations in Columbus a few weeks after that. Yes we have a cross bolted, big bore 400 block available. 400 or 440 main sizing is available and well as big diameter cams. Priority main oiling and oil to the lifters is standard. We don't anticipate having inventory for about a year. Everything is built to order for right now. $1700 deposit gets your place in line. then 6-8 weeks we will be ready to deliver the block and the balance is due when it is ready to ship.

All block B, RB wedge, RB Hemi all start @$3800 and are small bore

Big bore
big cam
Big main in 400 block
cross bolt #5
Bushed lifter bores
Are all upgrades and will incur additional cost.

Cast and machined in the USA, steel billet caps and ARP main studs std.