Re using cast iron rings?

replicaracer43 said

I personally think it's kinda of a personal choice, is it better with a plate? (Maybe) (possibly) (maybe not) I do know and have personally seen blocks bored and honed WITH a plate, that were worse than I normally end up with on a regular old rebuild. So its probably as much the operator as the equipment. But you know all the magazines said you had to have a torque plate so....

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On my third rebuild on my old 408 I drug my feet for some reason getting my block cleaned up and ready to build. It was going back at .030 for the third time. When I started brush honing my block with transmission fluid like always I was seeing shadows. I stopped and grabbed my finger hone and wholly crap those bores had more dips than the roads in Pa come Springtime. I wore out two sets of stones getting it somewhat cleaned up, then brush honed it. I ended up running 9.60’s with that engine and when I pulled it for it’s fourth and final rebuild my son needed an engine so he borrowed it and ran 10.10@3200 pounds in his car. It eventually grabbed a bearing and broke a rod but I knew we were pushing our luck running it another year. What are you going to do when your kid needs help.