Joiner

To get money so I can build my car, me and my friend bought some engines from a performance shop that's going out of business and I'm wondering how much I should sell them for.
We have two 396 big blocks, two 400 small blocks, about 10 350's, 10 305's, and two 327's....... Someone on Ebay is selling the cylinder heads for a 396 for $3000, so how much should I sell ours for? Someone told me that they sold their 400 small block for $1100, do you think I could get more for them? And what about the other small blocks, the shop guarantees that none of the engines have over 100,000 miles on them and of the engines we've taken apart so far we could still see the crosshatch pattern on the cylinder walls.

As for my car, we'll be putting a 383 in it with an old Muncie 4 speed, what size carburetor do people think I should run?

Joiner

All the engines are completely assembled except for maybe the fuel delivery.

Sonix

iTrader: (1)

...are you kidding?
you bought, what 16, high performance engines, to help MAKE MONEY to build your car??? Riiiiight.
And you want to know what you should sell them for, without telling us what is in the engines, as far as parts go?
Try to sell them for double what you paid. Boom, 200% profit margin there.

Good luck!

Rick1805

With out seeing photos and details no ones gonna to pay much for the motors. If you do a search for used as-is higher mileage motors on ebay
you will find them going for somewhere in the hundreds. If you have older
396 sought after motor parts (have to check markings) you might get some money for them but who knows with out photos and information about the
parts.

drknow90rs_ss@y

iTrader: (3)

Well, for starters, I would use one of those 400 sb's for your car. Screw building a 383, when a BIGGER motor is sitting in your garage. (There is an old saying: There is no replacement for displacement.) As for the 305's and 327's (Otherwise known as boat anchors) Scrap them, I have tried to sell longblock 305's (Roller cam) for 100.oo and not had ANY takers for months. Put that stuff up on your local craigslist (Indy is a big city, and you should have no problems unloading that stuff.)

ljnowell

Why scrap 327s? If its a small journal block, sell it to someone who needs it. If its a LJ block its a 350 block.

Joiner

First off, I never said they were built for performance, only that we got them from a performance shop. We just bought a bunch of performance cams and oil pumps and such from the same shop that we plan to put in some of them. It's 27 engines for $2700 and I know for sure that we can get almost 10 times that if we try. As far as I know the engines are all stock and none have more than 100,000 miles. My friend is the one who threw down the money to buy them so he gets what he put into it back. We're going to be rebuilding all of them. He's going to be buying a digital camera so we can get pictures of them, this is all getting into motion, we're just getting started. As for me having a 383.... I don't know if I'll have another car I can drive daily, I won't be getting much worse gas mileage than the 305 that's already in it because I'm missing my AIR unit and my carburetor's not adjusted right. The 383 is already built but has a 2 bbl intake manifold. The 383 with the Muncie 4 speed together and to have it completely installed in the car is $1100. It'd cost more to build the 400 and buy the 4 speed by itself.