I have possibility to buy used engine that is 400 block stroked 500. It is one season old.
This engine was built by Six-packspeed shop in Belgium. Originally it had Edelbrock performer RPM heads, MSD billet distributor, edelbrock performer intake and 750 Edelbrock carb, and some non radical camshaft from. After one season engine started to use a lot of oil it was like 1 liter for 100 km. They have suspected valve seals so they disassembled the engine and done some changes by the way :
Torquer intake
Speed demon 850 carb,
Adjustable rocker arms.,
New valve seals
more agresive camshaft, lifters, etc
Aftre that engine became much stronger, but oil conumption is still there.
This changes were done like one month before engine removal, As the owner became upset with this issue, he order new Arruza 518 Hemi that is putting 750 Hp, and wants to get rid of this old engine.
Now what do you guys think about it, how much it is worth ? Together with ceramic coated TTi and 727 trans ( that is broken) he asked 6000 EUR. In my opinion that problem with this engine was that he was using synthetic oil from the beggining, so i think now I could probably replace rings and do honing to the engine, i the worst case change pistons and bushings. Any suggestions ? Will consider all advices.