I know I've made a lot of threads recently, well, just one, I guess, but I get the feeling I'm being needy. Anyways, on to the point, I'm going to be dropping a 3.4 bottom end into my car (with a delicious cam, and hopefully some aluminum heads if I can get my hands on some) and I'm just wondering if you guys knew any good places to get one?

Obviously I've checked online and found a few sites, but I didn't know if there were any recommended sites for buying one. The local pick and pull junkyards around me want an absurd amount of money for a running one, the cheapest I found was $1600 , which is just...way too much.

Even better, any place online to find aluminum heads and the upper/lower intake manifold? Those, I have not been able to find.

 

if your doing that you just need the block from a RWD firebird/camaro and the upper from a FWD 3.4 make sure the junkyards know you want a RWD engine. 1600 for a pulled engine (running or not) out side of like an LS1/2 or somthing is robbery....

 

I'm doing a hybrid, for now, so I really just need the bottom end. And yea, 1600 for a pulled engine, especially just a 3.4, is absurd.

 

you might check junkyarddog.com they submit your request to 20-30 different scrapyards. I've gotten some good deals that way.

 

I ended up paying $150 for my shortblock and $250 for shipping to get it here (w/1000k miles). They are scarce here (unless it's knocking/seized).

 

Awesome, thanks for that man, I've found a ton through them for ~$800 with less than 30k miles.

 

Yeah, sorry. Should have given you a way to check local to you.

Car-Part.com

 

I have one in So Calif. I got out of a 93 Camaro a few years back and has been sitting on a stand in my garage. It had 44,000 original miles on it and the car was in an accident- totaled from the rear back in 1998 and it sat in an aquaintances side yard for a few years till I nabbed it thinking I was going to someday do something with it- well, A divorce and no more Camaro has changed that plan. I never put it into the car because I had just put a brand new 2.8 into it 6 months prior. Was just waiting for that to tire and i was gong to build this 3.4 for it next. Comes wih a prototype plenum I custom built also.

I want $400 FIRM if anyone local is interested.

Dean
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