It's all in how you buy the parts. I have 7500.00 in my 422 R3 smallblock with 360-1 heads and that includes the mopar tax we all pay.

1970 Duster
Edelbrock headed 408
5.984@112.52
422 Indy headed small block
5.982@112.56 mph
9.42@138.27

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