I am telling you that is what happens . Call the shop and talk to Steve and tell him that is wrong. See what he tells you. I seen him cutting a block before the sleeves were installed. That is what he told me and I don't think he would lie to me
He does them all the time for a speed shop that builds high end cars. No gasket failures since with 60 lbs of boost. 1000 HP 4 cylinders. He does the block and head work for all of them. There was always 10 or more here at one time for the same speed shop. Cope performance. He also does all the Viper engines and heads for Havok performance. Big boost twin turbo cars . They get cars from all over the states. Steve does all the custom engine work
Ok, I’ve set several hundred sleeves, probably closer to 500 and you never leave the sleeve proud unless it’s a sleeve with a hat on it.
The block the OP has doesn’t need a sleeve with the hat.
Edit: here’s the issue Steve. You don’t have a clue when you jump in a thread and talk about leaving the sleeve proud.
The OP does NOT have an aluminum block, nor is he using a a sleeve with the flange (hat) on it.
I get that you are rightly proud of your son but posting **** that is absolutely irrelevant to what the OP is asking just gets **** in people’s head. And then it needs to be corrected.
Just like right now.
So when someone asks about setting sleeves in an aluminum block then you can talk about protrusion.