Re hot honing etc
I h finsh my cylinders with the head installed from underneath. Mind you I use a sunnen hand Hone with the super fine stones and the material removal is very light but the bad areas of the bore where distrtion takes place showed up immediately and we were able to cure it this way. I do it only on my serious race motors as it is a pain to do. Hand honing takes a few years to get good at. I never tried it with a power hone but it is probably possible.I prefer this on our engines to using torque plates which "sorta" mimick the head. I believe that nothing mimicks the head better than "The head! I was never gonna tell anyone but oops there it is out in the open.
