I've decided it's about time to start collecting parts for a nice Slant Six to put in my Valiant. It looks from here like parts are starting to become unavailable. Many of the sites that were listing Slant Six parts as "in stock" just a year ago are no showing them as out of stock or not listing them at all. Offenhauser dual 1-bbl manifolds for the Slant Six are still available, but the 4 barrel Slant Six manifold is out of production. The Offenhauser cast aluminum valve cover for the Slant Six is also still available, but I suspect out of production as well.

This is really frustrating - a few weeks ago my wife agreed to let me spend about $15K on fixing up my Barracuda. The plan was to get an engine built first, then take car, engine, and transmission to a shop here in town and get everything installed (if it was just puting in the new engine I could handle it myself, but I'm also converting from an automatic to a 5 speed manual transmission). We would worry about paint and interior after getting all the mechanicals taken care of. I went and got a couple of estimates for rebuilding a 360, and everything seemed to be going smooth, until...