[Craig K.]

Was the block originally aligned honed (crank bores)?

I would always recommend this on any motor, alos when the clearances were checked was it only with plastic-gage, or did your machine shop check them with a bore gage (block/cap/bearings) vs. the crank with calipers or a mic?



Concerning running a HV in a stock pan, I do this and always have in my '85, this is along with an additional 4.5 quarts with the oil cooler, accumsump and all of the -10 lines, however this motore sees 4000-6200 for 30-60 minutes at a time, so far so good never had problems, but this is not your normal application.