I'm looking to rebuild my L98 in the summertime, and I just wanted to know how much you guys paid to get your engines bored over. I'm looking at something slight, like a .010 or a .030...im just doing a rebuild so I dont wanna do an .050 or an .060 because the gains are so slight its not worth it to go that far, imo.

 

Wow....never realized you were just over in Hamilton.

I would ask around for local machine shops (I use a guy I know down in Florence). Have the block bored only as far as it needs to go to clean up the wall, that way you have room to bore it again some day if it needs it.

Check out my site, www.njfboa.org for other thoughts from local F-body guys here in Jersey....

- Justin

 

Thanks for the info man. Yeah I didn't wanna get too crazy with the overbore, I'll ask around for local pricing though.

Anyone else have a ballpark figure?

 

my guy charges 112 for a bore,add 48 for torque plates.which you want...

 

Just do 0.030 over. Cheap and available pistons. That is unless you have to go 0.060 to clean it up.

I understand about not overboring so you can rebuild again, but look at it. What are the odds that you will own it, and matching numbers is not that important in a camaro. Vette, or some old original one maybe...

 

What are torque plates?

 

basically a plate with cylinder holes thats bolted down in place of the cylinder head to simulate the stresses on the block by the head bolts

 

you want it done with torque plates.it duplicates having the cylinder head bolted to the blot so the bore will be done as if the heads were and and making for a better bore and sealing