Depends on the project; What chassis & what swap do you have in mind?
A good example, an S14 240SX chassis w/ RB25DET swap is a circumstance where without a half-cut, it would be prohibitively expensive.
But even a NA MR2 to Turbo MR2 swap is made much easier by using a half-cut.
So again, it depends.
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