I can get a crate engine for $1,500, but I really want to do it myself. I recently rebuilt my transmission from a youtube video and it was surprisingly quick, cheap, and easy. I think I paid $175 for new bearings and syncros. I've had my engine apart while it was in the car before. I took the rods off and the pistons out, and I honed the cylinders and re-ringed the pistons, but it has 300,000 miles on it now and it needs a boring. It has low compression on one of the cylinders, but a fairly newly rebuilt head.