[aigel]

If a machineshop is hard to come by, what I have done in the past is buy a short block at Autozone and only send the heads out to a machine shop. It was cheaper than doing machine work on the shortblock components and the shortblock came with a warranty. I was also able to check torque and assembly. It came from one of the large rebuild paces. I put a lot of miles on that engine before selling it. It was also faster than building from scratch.

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