[fiveohpatrol]

well are you gonna be assembling the shortblock yourself or not?

If you are gonna have someone else do it, then you might wanna just look into buying a complete shortblock. After all of the cleaning, honing, balancing, etc, it would be about the same price as getting a base shortblock (between $1500-1700 or so)

Thats what I plan on eventually doing. It just seems like alot less hassel.
The only bad part is that you can never be exactly sure of the quality of work going into it. Not that you can guarantee that from a machine shop either though, but it would probably be a safer bet from someone you have worked with in the past.

good luck,
-Drew