Can you hone them out? That might be enough and not make it so you need to do a new set of rings.
Someone suggested I use sour cream containers,
cut to fit the cylinders, to keep stuff out of the cylinders
while I clean the surface and bolt holes.
I think oykos (sp) yoghurt containers might fit too.
It works great to keep out small pieces that might get between the piston and wall and cause more sctratches.
So i swapped my motor to this bottom end along with the AMC head from the other thread and started it up today...so far so good, test drive tmrw when I reconnect cooling system.
I asked Giles to build the pump to 15psi...how am I going to get 15 pounds out this motor i don't know...blows a lot of smoke right now.
Question: how much a detriment is oil contamination on the mating surfaces? I had a bunchnof oil in the head and it seeped onto the gasket before i could really crank it down.
It's nice to keep the block and head grease free.
That's why the sour cream cylinder plugs are handy,
I can just spray the surface down and not worry about stuff going into the cylinders.
I suppose a little oil should be OK,.. guess we'll see.
just retorqued the head bolts after 1500kms...so far running pretty well on this block.
before dropping it in: