A few years ago a buddy hydro locked a 360 stroker he got from them , He had a bad carb , flooded it and bent a rod cranking , He got it as a short block for around 3k , I fixed it for him and cant say that anything was out of spec or poorly done, not my choise of parts but thats what they said was it for 3k,I am not defending the builder but IMO there are two sides to every story and its not really fair if the builder cant represent himself , as far as the big stroker goes, I dont think its worth the big bucks outa a stock block