thank you; its good to be back, I haven't touched my car in at least 5 months. had expectations of building a 8000 rpm 318 and was making good progress until it was time to actually get it to the machine shop and then I realized that it would be undriveable on the street. so now i'm going to slam rings and bearings in the current engine and just zero deck the block to get more compression out of it. (to actually match the cam I got in it) should be in it around 500$ and it'll be done way quicker.