Great advice.
Thank you.

I may just purchase a complete engine out of a seized or wrecked car.

Its gonna cost $4000 dollars versus 500 for a used engine.

I may tear into this thing myself just as an expensive learning tool so I will be familiar with everything but I'm at least gonna try to time this correctly.

I figured out how to drip time this thing no problem.
I just cannot find any base timing marks.

I need to buy a FSM.

What do you think about honing and installing some cast rings, at this point I would really like to pull the crank and have a crack at it.

I haven't seen much info on doing this so I'm guessing there is a reason.
Basic theory suggests that as long as the rings seat evenly it should have OK compression.
I'll just crank the boost up a bit lol.

I'm more concerned with a round bore than the taper, only the top 5% of the stroke is out so if I can lessen this with a moderate hone I would expect it to be fine.

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