I am looking at a running, complete 250 that has a Recon engine rebuilder's tag. Starting with a nice, rebuilt shortblock would save me alot of $$ I would have spent at the machine shop that I could put towards a nicely worked head. I did some reading about Recon engines, not much of it was good. This rebuild would have been a long time ago, but the engine was in a garaged Camaro until last week.
What do you think? Gamble on the Recon shortblock and get a nice lump-port head? Or play it safe with my existing block and only have money for basic head work?
