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Experience with Jasper?
- Thread starter Chris Ziemer
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Have you heard anything bad about Blueprint? They build new from their own castings, so I always considered them much better than the remanufacturers out there.
One of my best friends works at probably one of the highest end hot rod shops in NJ and they have really good luck with Blueprint stuff.
what I know about Blueprint is 30 years old....... I think they were a new builder on the market and had a few issues. They weren't making their own block at that time.
By the way, in CA you can put a newer engine not older, you can upgrade as long as the parts have a CA approved tag.
If I had seen this earlier I would have offered my low miles L31 complete with harness and offered to install for you.
All you would have needed was a modified ecm and a visit to the BAR for a new tag
I was thinking you could use an L31 because you could use a vortec carb intake and use your carb and emissions devices? But I admit I’m not familiar with California’s BS laws
Aren’t all the GM crates basically L31 castings with vortec heads?
Aren’t all the GM crates basically L31 castings with vortec heads?
Got a friend running one in his G-body drag car no real problems .
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yeah that will never pass visual in Kommiefornia emissions testing. Be nice though
I can use these but too rich for my blood
Over on the Ford forum, the Motorcraft remans were Jasper. Seems they were good a number of years ago, but more recently things have become iffy.
yeah seem your right I vaguely remember a Jasper rep coming to inspect a bad authorized Ford rebuilt, @ 15 years ago. We were swapping v10 Triton, @ 1 or 2 a month. All those were 200k plus mile engines. The Jasper's idk how long they survived. They did warranty that engine and Ford did the swap, couldn't afford to pay us to do it lol
Key component to that statement was 22 years.
Exactly.
I started hearing horror stories about them about 12 years ago
I haven’t thought about Jasper in a long time until this thread came along. I don’t remember the years and I didn’t search to find out. But, it seems they were a good source of engines back when they were a primary sponsor for a NASCAR team. Did they start doing crap rebuilds because they spending all their money on the sponsorship or stop sponsoring because they weren’t making any money due to quality going down? Who knows.
I record the Stacey David Gears tv show and actual watch an episode every so often. He is using a Blueprint brand crate engine in a few of his projects. The bit about the company stated they make their own castings for block and heads. The prices seem high to me, but anything more than $300 for a running 350 seems high to me since that is what they used to go for. Here is a link, not an endorsement :
blueprintengines.com
I record the Stacey David Gears tv show and actual watch an episode every so often. He is using a Blueprint brand crate engine in a few of his projects. The bit about the company stated they make their own castings for block and heads. The prices seem high to me, but anything more than $300 for a running 350 seems high to me since that is what they used to go for. Here is a link, not an endorsement :
About Us
For the past 40 years, BluePrint Engines has worked to become an industry leader and one of the largest crate engine manufacturers in the United States. What started as a one man operation in our CEO and Founder's garage, is now a 210,000 sq. ft facility employing more than 225 people.
blueprintengines.com
Found my old build sheet for the bronco. $120 for bore and hone back in 2009
Sadly that shop is gone now. We had a 366 from a Kodiak work truck rebuilt for $3800 a couple month's ago
Avoid Jasper at all costs, when I bought my K5 it had a new Jasper 350, within a 1000 miles it wasn’t running right, long story short, cracked head. Upon further inspection it appeared in its previous form a connecting rod went through the side of the block and they welded the block back together.. Found a low mile Jegs 300hp 350 with world products Torquer heads on it, $1200, a buddy, and a six pack is all it cost me to put it in..
Sold the Jasper 350 before I pulled it so buyer could see it run, gave full disclose of all known issues, $750. Overall cost me about $500 plus a flywheel and some tuneup stuff..
There are lots of good engines out there on stands and in garages for projects that never came together. There are also lots of duds, so do you due diligence..
Sold the Jasper 350 before I pulled it so buyer could see it run, gave full disclose of all known issues, $750. Overall cost me about $500 plus a flywheel and some tuneup stuff..
There are lots of good engines out there on stands and in garages for projects that never came together. There are also lots of duds, so do you due diligence..
