I totaled my truck and am planning on building a 700-800 HP LLY and am just wondering the average cost of the build. I would prefer to not do heads and a cam to save a little I know its possible but what i dont know is how much it will cost.

I totaled my truck and am planning on building a 700-800 HP LLY and am just wondering the average cost of the build. I would prefer to not do heads and a cam to save a little I know its possible but what i dont know is how much it will cost.

I see Merchant Automotive in your sig...... Eric would be the one to ask.

Rods $2700-$3200, there are some rods in the works by a vendor here, vortefcar? that will be a choice soon, maybe cheaper.

cam and crank pin fix $200 or so
pistons $800-$3000 depending on what you do.
all new bearings
all new gaskets, roughly $600
labor
oil pump choices..

I have been adding it up roughly. From your sig it looks like you don't have a turbo. $15000-$20000 depending on turbo choice and how much labor you do yourself.
Thats billet shafts in the tranny, motor goodies and a healthy turbo.

I'm sure someone will post that knows more that me.

Look at Bobo's truck and what he did to get to 700hp with mostly stock items.

If your intrested i could fax you a price list.

If your intrested i could fax you a price list.
Thar ya go!

Look at Bobo's truck and what he did to get to 700hp with mostly stock items.

I don't know if you'd want to call em stock.
Bobo has spent LOTS of money and LOTS of time on his truck, no offense to you but i think calling his mostly stock is an insult.

its more of a question of where do I draw the line!
decide what HP you want and make sure thats it
there is a ton of well i did this so i should do this and this

I totaled my truck and am planning on building a 700-800 HP LLY and am just wondering the average cost of the build. I would prefer to not do heads and a cam to save a little I know its possible but what i dont know is how much it will cost.

Well, I have to tell you it's tough to stop at JUST that. I am at the end of my build and i can share that it's tough to draw the line at even 650 HP. Not trying to rain on the parade, but instead being realistic. I truly want all of us to have 1000 HP daily trucks.:D

You can't hook up 650 HP on the street, and at the track 650 HP boils all 3 tires if you leave with boost. So to do it right, apply all the new power to the pavement to move you forward, you need lockers $800 +/-, slicks, 3 link or 4 link or whatever you can engineer to hook it up.

Now it's hooked up, it goes 0-60 in about 4 seconds or 250 feet +/-, Now stop the pig before you hit the car in front of you or run the red light. Brakes... Do your own or pay 6k +/- for top shelf big brakes, then buy the rims to fit over them, 17's usually won't.

Exhaust, Tuning, Fueling, Built trans/Converter, guages, brain bucket, DHRA stuff for racing etc etc etc.

Realistically you could spend 13k (incl trans) and get 650 HP off the shelf/bolt on or spend 40k easy, doing 700+ the right way. Not sure there is a middle ground done right.

Best of luck. IMHO for a driver, go mild and hose it.

I totaled my truck and am planning on building a 700-800 HP LLY and am just wondering the average cost of the build. I would prefer to not do heads and a cam to save a little I know its possible but what i dont know is how much it will cost.
figure 6-9k on the bottom end/short block depending on how crazy you let you self go

arp make bolts for all the magor bolts in the engine

another 4-12k for fuel/cp3 and air turbo(s), heads

heres reality for those of us who dont have the time to build...

5200.00 used motor so my truck aint down for 2 months
13.000.00 merchant built w/ "all most" all the tricks, including socal S1 heads
3000.00 dual CP3
3900.00 A5K
8000.00 ats extreme, converter, copilot
1000.00+ program
1000.00 aam posi installed
lift pumps on the way, plus 5" exhaust and im prolly forgeting something. this is how much i have spent sofar, oh yeah 2WD now i need to get it to hook up... ps this dont include installed labor price from my mechanic.. :eek:
will change the sig when its all done..

above is correct, just want to elaborate more

crower rods $2700
OR
carrillo rods $3000
ARP head studs $650
full set of gaskets $490
injector washers/o-rings $125
cutting and coating of pistons $600
cam/crank keyway $200
labor ?2500-4500?
oil pump $650
water pump $240
oil cooler $255
heads $2k-$4k
cam $1k
easily above $10k if you let it, possible under $10k

heres reality for those of us who dont have the time to build...

5200.00 used motor so my truck aint down for 2 months
13.000.00 merchant built w/ "all most" all the tricks, including socal S1 heads
3000.00 dual CP3
3900.00 A5K
8000.00 ats extreme, converter, copilot
1000.00+ program
1000.00 aam posi installed
lift pumps on the way, plus 5" exhaust and im prolly forgeting something. this is how much i have spent sofar, oh yeah 2WD now i need to get it to hook up... ps this dont include installed labor price from my mechanic.. :eek:
will change the sig when its all done..



Does your girl know you have almost as much under the hood as you paid for the truck??? I damn near had to do a back flip face plant to spend 5k on a blower. But I can do 0-60 in 4.7(best so far)

It's easy to add up bolt on's. You'll spend 8K+ if plan to drop off you truck to have someone:
1. Pull and reinstall your motor
2. Machining and Balancing
3. Supply gaskets and seals
4. Tear down and rebuild the motor

Note: it takes alot of labour to do everything.

Extras is as far as you want to take it....to the above price add the cost of studs,rods,pistons minimum. That should give you a bottom end that would handle 700-800hp

To produce the power start adding injectors, turbos, cp3.

It's easy to add up bolt on's. You'll spend 8K+ if plan to drop off you truck to have someone:
1. Pull and reinstall your motor
2. Machining and Balancing
3. Supply gaskets and seals
4. Tear down and rebuild the motor

Note: it takes alot of labour to do everything.

Extras is as far as you want to take it....to the above price add the cost of studs,rods,pistons minimum. That should give you a bottom end that would handle 700-800hp

To produce the power start adding injectors, turbos, cp3.
labor depending were you are at runs 60-90 bucks and hour:mad: and an easy 40-50 hours if you drop the assembeld engine off and pick up and assembled engine

two big ones for stock motor and three big ones for a built motor.

Labor cost = burning an even bigger hole in your pocket...

thats why i kept my s-10 around! drive another vehicle (if you have one) and do it yourself...

$10,000 SoCal Diesel.
$5,000 Engine Builder.
Tranny $5,000.
Turbo $4,000.
Dual Injection Pump 3,000.
Front end, Chips plus the rest of the bolt ons needed $4,000