it isn't all that bad when i've looked at it. i could've done it a TON cheaper by just going with the 20R head and my weber in the beginning rather than building the 22R which had a warped head and kept blowing gaskets, and broke a cam.
by going with the 20R head in the beginning i would have saved:
$300 on having the stock carb rebuilt(big mistake, the guys were idiots)
$35 having the 22R head resurfaced
$100 for a new cam after the original one snapped
$100 in miscellaneous gaskets, fluids etc
let's see how much i've got into my engine in its current form:
machine work: about 600-700 for everything(this includes having the block bored and honed, washed and decked, rods rebushed, having the 20R head completely rebuilt with my new valves and seals etc)
master rebuild set: $250
ARP head and main studs: $170
EPN stainless O/S valves, 268c torker cam, bronze guides, retainers, springs and alll: about $200 or so
offy manifold: $150 used
weber: free, came with my truck, but i paid $20 for a rebuild kit and $50 for a box of jets
thorley header: $189 from summit
so, that puts me at a bit under $1800. not bad for a peppy little engine that screams when you hit it hard, bolts directly in to most any toyota pickup, and isn't too terrible on gas(though i'm sure i could get it better if i had an A/F gauge to get everything tuned spot-on).
and yet, i still have ideas of what i want to do with it next. my current thought is to get my hands on a single DCOE cannon intake, run a TWM DCOE replacement throttle body on it, and rig up fuel injection with SDS or megasquirt...
