To line2line coat or not to line2line coat ;-)

OK, I'm going to say this is completely unnecessary, you should just leave it alone and drive it but since it'll make you feel better, it may be worth it, and it's not my money. Here's my advice: Have the shop hone the block a couple thou to clean up the scratches, send the pistons out for L2L and reassemble. I think there's more chance of **** going wrong doing this than with leaving it alone, but it's not my stuff. I assume that this shop has suitable tooling, ie torque plate and a proper hone that can correct taper and out of roundness. If the shop doesn't have a torque plate and/or gives you silly looks when you mention cylinder taper etc, just leave it be. I doesn't need to be a diamond hone, but that'd be nice. I'm trying hard to not be an asshole, but shops using tools from the pre-computer era are not what you want for performance engine building.

I'd rather spend the $ on porting:) S/F....Ken M

The shop I use is not taking stuff from random people and they only deal with racing stuff. I am sure they have all they need and more, not too worried about that. The guy that runs it is a total nut case in a good way so it will be fine. Last time I gave him 383 block for bore/hone and did not ask for deck surfacing he contacted me all pissed off and said that he cant let it be like that and demanded me to show up at the shop so he will show me that decking is needed :-)
Most people tell me to leave it alone, I am just worried that the scratches will worsen and it will make the block unusable. In my reality importing bare 400 block means spending total of around 1300$ where block is 500$ and rest is shipping/tax. The whole rebuild would cost me less honestly.
I dont know what is the overbore limit of 400 block. I see some ,060 over 440 blocks here pushing 650hp... I wonder if they are just lucky? Seems like a big number to me.