Quote Originally Posted by pat mccarthy View Post
yes done wrong you can ruin a good block by drilling in to the oil galley or just drilling deeper then you need as well as not having the rear thust line up if you going 4 bolt all the way you need someone thats done bbc. i never used the cheap caps from china i send out for line bore till i find one i can afford some guys will not line bore a block with cheap caps on them they say the cap steel can have hard spots in them .the programs are the ones to get but in the long run playing with all this stuff$$ your better buying a new block and get the 4.500 bore i bet it would not be more then1500 for the up grade you know you want a 540 any ways
A 540 would be sweet, but then my almost brand new 305 AFR heads with CNC combustion chambers (have less than 500 miles on them) would be too small. So 496 might be the ticket since I have everything except the short block itself and I've had no luck in locating a MK IV 4 bolt main block close to the west coast to have dialed in for a 496 stroker. With a 496 I could use my 305 AFR heads, but if these 305 heads would have been the 305 CNC heads making them 315's that would have been better! If I lived fairly close to you Pat I would love for you to do my work because I'm positive it would be done right! Whether I had you do a 4 bolt main MK IV or located a 2 bolt main to have you splay. I have no idea what shipping rates would run to ship a completed 496 short block from where you live Pat to here at 97322 in Albany Oregon. I'm trying to decide whether to use a big hyd roller camshaft or risk running a solid roller camshaft on the street? This would be in a Model A roadster (never hook up) and less than 2,000 miles a year at the very most. My ride is strictly a fair weather ride when there is NO clouds in the sky.