[67ChevyRedneck]

The cheapest GM crate engine is the Gen 1, 250HP crate engine that you should be able to get from your local GM dealer for around $1,500 with tax. Call around to your local dealers, I found that my local dealers varied in price by about $50-100 or so. I bought an "autozone" rebuild YEARS ago and it was about $700 after my core, but I think they've gone up a lot since then. Had I know the GM engines were so "cheap" I would have saved up and bought one.

I recently looked into a complete ECE 3.5/5 drop kit for my truck and it's around $800. That's 2.5 spindles, 1" springs up front, 5" springs in the back, new track bar and shock relocation kit, and 4 new shocks.

I'm leary of buying any engine or transmission parts that have been rebuilt without some kind of warranty, especially $1,800 expensive.

I read that you have a vibration problem in your build thread... ANY idea where that's coming from? It may be your front end is wore out, it would be a good idea to rebuild the front end to go with your drop and that's a few hundred bucks to do it right too.