bought myself a 200 block. really should have checked the bore before i handed over the cash, the guy told me it was standard bore and i believed him.... only for it to turn out its 0.5 overbore and 7 thou too big for that so i guess im gonna have to go .75!! that was an expensive mistake.... especially as i bought it withought main caps.

anyway heres what it was like when i picked it up


i started to clean up the main bearing faces



heres the bore before i touched it


and after i gave them a little rub... i thought these were the original cross hatches when i bought it