Last night we took the truck out for a test run to see if everything was ok, seemed better, got on it pretty good and then when I got out of it it it started knockin a little. By the time I pulled over it was knocking more... it was pretty bad, shut it down and towed it home.
So now I'm trying to figure out what to do with it
Before anyone says it, I have no intention of swaping to any LS motor, anything that goes back in with be BBC with the stock vortec intake on it.
So here are the options that Im looking atpretty much in order of cost)
1. Get a high mile junk yard motor and do a basic rebuild(bearings, rings, seals...)
2. Get a low milage junk yard motor or a reman.
3. Get a Wheeler power products short block. and swap all my parts onto it. Never heard of wheeler before, but I could get thier sportsman series, forged / stroked 496 short block for about 3 grand.
I'm kind of leaning twards option 3 because I do want to go with more performance eventualy, so I don't want to stick a ton of money into another motor that I can't use later.
Any thoughts, suggestions? I guess total budget needs to stay around 3 grand.