Not trying to offer excuses for KB but I had called them, Ken Black ended up talking to me, last year to see how long and how much for a new street Hemi block with dry sleeves. He said thay had switch vendors on the castings and the casting cores and they where getting blocks that where to soft to use so he couldn't give me a good date on shipping me a block I hope he has resolved that but you need to know that thier are not a lot of company left in So Ca that can cast aluminum blocks and the same on companys that can and will make good casting cores
Good luck to all of you waiting Hopefully you will get a very good, useable block once the problems are resolved