Forget the low deck at any price. Any price. So the real question is do you want the Bill Mitchell? The bore is too large, so I guess you will have to replace the sleeves. I'm guessing new sleeves will be $1,000 plus whatever someone charges you to replace them. I've never replaced the sleeves in a Bill Mitchell, I assume you need an oven. All this sounds like a $2,000 total bill to me. I know you say this is a low buck deal but I wouldn't take the Bill Mitchell either. This may sound strange but the cheapest Hemi blocks today are the new blocks. They are expensive. But they are the cheapest because of all the work it takes to get a dog block fixed up. I would borrow the money from the bank and seek out the best deal I could get on a new block of known quality.

People have been putting Hemis in A bodys for over 50 years. You can do it. But it's tight. In the next few months we are going to put one in my buddys 68 Dart. After 35 years of him wanting one.