Big-Block Chevy Buyer's Guide ... performed all the necessary machining, including a final hone of the cylinders. Engine displacement is calculated by: bore x stroke x number of cylinders ...

For example, with the use of torque plates, stresses and bore distortion created by the installation of cylinder heads can be imposed. Therefore, its possible to finish-hone cylinders to ...

Even with a 4.000-inch-stroke crankshaft, boring (or should we say - honing) the cylinders liners out as large as possible netted just 383 cubic inches. Although massive 4.125-inch bore diameters ...

The block is then final-honed with an automatic Rottler honing machine with a diamond ... Because of the thin spacing between cylinder bores on these big-bore engines, Fel Pro metal layer steel ...