Guys
Making castings is the easy part. Getting them machined through another vendor is the hard part. Nobody wants to beat the hell out of their machines for little or no profit. They have had numerous people try and it is nothing but problems. Koleno tried and the Bradshaw group is trying. Indy tried years ago. The problem is not making them it is MAKING MONEY doing it. At the time they did make them the blocks were a break even prospect at best. It was all the other parts that you could sell with them that made money. Now that other companies have started making parts (Stage V, Indy, Edelbrock and others those sales are no longer generating the profits to carry the blocks. Buy the money losing blocks from Mopar and then all the rest from Company A,B,C. Does not work. Chrysler HAD a crate motor program but it never really went very well despite trying numerous builders. IF you could order 20 or 30 thousand of them you might get someones attention. Otherwise........