Thread: Sleeving a Block

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Originally Posted by Capecreations21

.... Is there any information that I need myself before bringing it to a shop like yourself, or can I bring it to a shop with the idea in mind that I want it to spin 10k and sleeve it and they will know how far they can go in terms of bigger bore and stroke or not so much?

You definitely CANNOT just carry your block to any machine shop and expect to get back what you want. There are tons of old posts here about guys spending big $$$ and being disappointed with what they got back. And just because a shop tells you "...we sleeve blocks all the time" doesn't mean they know beans about sleeving all the bores, punching it to the max while keeping it reliable, and balancing it to spin. You need a good "performance machine shop" that understands building race engines where the guy is smarter than you about how it's done, but still listens to you for what you want, and explains why it'll work or why not - the shop that can point to a proven track record of successful builds. My $0.02 on it.