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4 months later and I've just heard from the 2 machine shops in the last week. I did talk with Bob at Anchor Atlantic 2 months ago though, he let me know the owner of the shop and person that was welding up the one bad head passed away suddenly. He called me the other day to let me know work has started again on the heads, one is already done.
Shop doing the block let me know that #5 has water scoring so I have to go with oversized pistons.
Here's where it may get interesting and I have to do some research but if anyone here knows, please post. I know you can build a high hp motor with a stroker crank, rods and bore the cylinders out to use 968 pistons, 104 vs. 100 mm. To build that motor it's about $20K and go to $30 easily, but my understanding is you get somewhere around 500 hp at 6+ liters.
That is completely out of the budget but I thought now would be a good time to bore the block out to 968 bore, same with the combustion chambers on the heads but retain the crank and rods.
Even if I got little to hp gain doing that, if the engine still ran well (with some sharktuning I'm sure) in that configuration, it makes sense to do it now.
Any thoughts on this?
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