[Matt Monson]

I've got a '70 E engine I've contemplated selling. I would ask $8k for mine with no mfi. I've spent a couple Grand on mfi parts and still don't have the pump yet.

Not all cores are created equal. A core sitting in the corner for 20 years with no idea of anything is different than the one in my car that smokes on start up and decel, but still runs just fine. It needs to be gone through, but you know it's not rusted in place or gotten a broken rocker or something else the core in the corner might have. The corner engine isn't worth more than $5k to me.