Advice on stroker build with cracked cylinder
340 or 360 in Australia Rusty
I usually do not just hone sleeve to size
I chuck them in the jig and bore them straight with the cam and crank (and hopefully deck)
not often but often enough I have found the sleeve was not true
you have to bore the block B 4 sleeving anyway
on the other hand
Back at the 62 AHRA nationals in Cado Mills Texas Zane Shubert had Chet Herbert's brand new twin chevy 452 engines
these were the first 63 model year 327 blocks and were bored to 4 1/8 - they cracked
The team went to a gas station and sleeved all the holes with a kwik way working off the deck (which was correct) that plus block fill
Zane went on to win Top fuel when all the Chryslers went up in smoke on the greasy track- Lefty won top gas
lots of sportsmanship at this meet One racer loaned Zane's competition a top gas blown Chrysler so there would be a race and a show for the crowd.- miss those days
I was helping Lefty in the twin 4x4 383 chevies and we both had to tighten up the clearance on the "400 Degree" rollers and take the stacks off the injectors to kill the low end