My 1st choice would be Thomson cause he does great work and is a great guy and I have have been doing my most recent engine stuff with him. Urban also.
Wegner and Billy are also good.

I think those are all guys you get real straight talk from and not exaggerated dyno #'s from.

Another vote for Wegner. I wouldn't count them out on the budget either. We own one and I bet they will be competitive! :thumbsup:

If it's good enough for Charlie - it's good enough for me.... :peepwall:

Well there's no doubt you guys have named some of the industry's best! Thanks for making my decision even harder! I have contacted most of the builders mentioned and there are a few who will not come within my budget (wegner, Nelson) but were not talking by much if I scaled back somewhere on the build they could do it. Erl builds a really nice dry sleeved short block but won't do a long block? Very tempted to go the sleeved ls3 427 shortblock route and finish it myself. I do have a question though regarding the block. Some of the mentioned builders prefer to use a seasoned block due to core shift issues and others say the will never use anything but a new block for a 800hp build? Just wondering if that's even a issue?