YouTube - jlasti's Channel
A friend of mine's old car. Cam only L32 with Fullsize and built tranny, and the usual supporting stuff for an E85, 2.55 Gen V build. Heads never came off the car, LIM only came off for the cam install. Not really all that expensive if you do it all in one round.
If you slowly upgrade, however, it will get expensive.
This platform is not ideal, but it is still fairly cheap to get fast.
Marc goes by Boostd1 on a lot of different forums, and is very knowledgeable.