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Your "a little more" delta of $125k minus $100k = $25k is what a lot of us want to pay no more than for an engine, period. If you believe $25k is just "a little more," then you're living on a different plane of existence than most of us and this is the wrong place to look for favorable opinions.
That was my thought too. If I'm shelling out $125K for an engine, that's not what I'm going for.
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All the bells & whistles, any US (normally aspirated) aluminum small block V8 will cost less than $10,000, a big block might hit $15,000 (these are numbers for aluminum blocks & heads, if you don't care about weight it will be cheaper)
Just out of curiosity what does one of the big blocks weigh? What's the difference in weight between the aluminum blocks and heads vs the other option (I'm assuming some form of steel)?