Agreed. Assuming you're not trying to fix an oiling issue. Mike's way past doing it "right" (right being subjective to the guy supplying the ideas).
Mike - please read post 601769 on the link below regarding your self-bushing idea. You may repair the oil leak. You won't fix anything else. You need the right (expensive & complicated) machining equipment and tooling to do it right.
As to RAMM's comments - this is exactly why I build as a side business. You can't expect to pay your mortgage when the clientele is basing whether you're being fair or not on internet commentaries and pricing from when the subject vehicles were new rather than if their engine does what they want and expect it to.
As to the benefits of correcting angles - I will simply point to MOPARTS - or more precisely those builders that responded on this one. It's from 2010 but I can't think that any blocks fixed themselves in that time. And BTW - I've been bushing since way before this because it's the "right thing to do":
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