Quote Originally Posted by rspears View Post
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.

That's some good advice for sure, and yes I did see a couple of posts involving people having bad luck with block builds in my quick search for wherei should post this.. Anyway, I couldn't agree more a performance shop is definitely the way to go, I guess I asked if I could just explain what I want because I don't know how to calculate the specs myself, that would I imagine be the easiest way is if I knew exactly what I wanted the dimensions to be?