Original numbers matching engine found do I pay the ransom ?

[Road Reptile]

Hi
Just a quick message to say be very careful with this block if it still is standard bore a ball hone may do more harm than good. It is EXTREMELY important that it be properly cleaned if it spun a bearing and if you can WAIT untill you can spend the money to do it properly-honed with torque plates is a crutial step to provide good ring seating. Ask any pro engine builder. We wait to see what you report next.
R.R.

[pbf777]

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    And particularly:

..............if it still is standard bore a ball hone may do more harm than good.

    "Ball-Hones" (aka, "dinkleberry-hone"    ) are not an acceptable instrument to be utilized in the block cylinder bores for providing a proper surface acceptable for the rings, this particularly of those of this era.

    Back when engines were slow and the rings were of thick and fat cast iron, well O.K., one could 'say' that the ball-hone tool "worked"; but with today's more sophisticated piston ring engineering there are greater concerns in the requirements for their successful application and with proper cylinder bore surfaces being of greater importance 

    Not to say I haven't and don't still utilize ball-hones, but generally only for instances of where for example the block bores are rusty and scaly, and then only for the purpose of removing the heavy stuff that would otherwise just load-up a proper honing/boring stone; but 'never' as a supposed finished surface ready to be put into service.   

    Scott.

[2112]

427 Hunter, did you share how the seller of the block and you came together?

I mean, for all he knew it was a K-code block only. Was he the former owner of your car? That would help explain how he knew it belonged to your car.

Just curious on the back story.

[2112]

Consider my situation...a fellow "owner" and "car guy" knows where my engine is and talks to the current owner occasionally - who calls him asking if he's interested in negotiating for the engine. Despite this he isn't willing to let me talk directly to the engine owner even when I offered a "fee" if a deal to get the engine back materialized. Instead he's trying to buy the engine and then deal directly with me. While I'm okay with that too- he doesn't seemed to be interested making this happen to help me reunite the two. So I'm stuck knowing it's out there and potentially available, but a fellow "hobbyist" is blocking me and isn't allowing it to happen. This is almost the total opposite of your scenario.

This story is the more frustrating scenario.  🤬

[427hunter]

427 Hunter, did you share how the seller of the block and you came together?

I mean, for all he knew it was a K-code block only. Was he the former owner of your car? That would help explain how he knew it belonged to your car.

Just curious on the back story.

I really don't want to get into it because it will only make me angry, listing my  Shelby number (853) in my profile was enough for the middle man to find me. 

[2112]

I really don't want to get into it because it will only make me angry, listing my  Shelby number (853) in my profile was enough for the middle man to find me. 

Sounds like you and @wcampbell have the same story.