Low cost remanufactured or crate 302's

Im working over a couple of ideas in my head at the moment, and one of them involves a 302 Ford v8.

I can pick up running Ford v8s for $500-1000 locally. But that can be buying an unknown quantity, alot of the time the km's are unknown or deliberately understated. Which means id be considering freshening up anything I bought, and adding more expense.

So, in the interest of weighing up all my options, I feel it's worth considering bringing in a crate or remanufactured engine.

So my question is, where would I find a good deal on such an engine? Id assume summit and jegs are worth a look. Any other leads or ideas?

Ford.

Power level you want to make. ~3000$ or so for a long-block that will make ~400hp with accessories being another 1K.

Already have the injection/cab and all the extra bits, find a mildly worn out block for 500$ on Craigslist and build for ~1.5K locally correctly and bolt it together.

300hp give or take 50. It would be for a lpg powered project.

A standard motor is all I need at this point.

You might want to look up a company called PSI. They make lpg variants of that engine, I believe.

300 on Pain could be done with a GT40P headed F cammed 5.0 with valve work, springs, a good intake and headers.

What chassis is it going in?

I was hearing a lot of bad things about the Ford Racing crate engines, so I went with the refresh my own long block own route. About $3000 Cnd to buy a core, go over the engine with a bore, new pistons, alloy heads, roller rockers and all the other bits and bobs. So like a buck fiddy USd gets you a rebuild.

You answered your own question when you said that Summit and Jegs would have them. You really don't need to look any further for selection or price.

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I've bought two GT40p motors now from local salvage yards. One for $300, one for $350. Both were immaculate inside, and have served me well.

If you are doing the building yourself and confideny in your abilities, buy a junkyard motor and build it how you like it. They are normally in decent shape from personal experience.

If your gonna farm it out or are uneasy about a rebuild just buy one with a warranty from a good company.

Ive seen bad stuff out of the mainstream remanufacturers.

Cheers for the responses guys. I figured jegs or summit were probably my best bet for what I'm chasing, but you never know till you ask.

Rebuilding a junkyard engine probably edges out a crate motor once shipping factors in. And as has been mentioned, means I can spec it how I want.

Ford X-302 used to be a screaming deal at around $3K with a recycled block for 345HP, but they charge something like $6K for that now with a new block (I think).

If you're just looking to mate up a carb and an alternator on a crate motor, the other crate companies out seem like a safe way to get a good motor.

I wanted a 302 complete with EFI and transmission for a track car project. I had an acquaintance who tried the same project piecing together a package of used motor and accessories together himself. He could never get it running.

I found a man who had done a nice job refreshing a Foxbody himself to pass the time, but he was tired of it. I bought it from him and sold the roller to a drag car guy once I had pulled out everything I needed.

It ended up costing me what I would have paid for a "freshly pulled" running package out of a high-mile Ford around here, and it's a very clean looking, strong rebuilt motor and T5, solid clutch, useable drive shaft, etc. And I got to drive the Foxbody until I was tired of it, which was a blast.

belteshazzar wrote: I've bought two GT40p motors now from local salvage yards. One for $300, one for $350. Both were immaculate inside, and have served me well.

what do you mean by GT40p motor and what vehicle did they come in?

Explorers.

I believe generally for awaps people want the non p heads. P heads flow better but exhaust optios are limited, so finding a header that will fit a chassis the motor didnt come in can be harder.