We rarely do stock rebuilds and try to limit engine work to improving on what was stock. If its a stock or budget rebuild, we will add or delete any steps the customer wants, but nce one has gone to all of the trouble of taking the engine out of the car, taking it apart, cleaning it, and machining the bore for a new set of pistons and rings, it takes so little extra work to improve significantly over what was stock, it really makes sense to do the extra steps and most customers agree. Just as with the deck height, one of the things we have found in doing a lot of engines, is that you just can't assume that the other specs will be right, or even within tolerance, just because you are using stock parts, so essentially everything gets checked, measured and reconditioned.

The whole point is to apply what has been learned in the last 40 years to improving 40 year old machines. We never thought we would be building very mild mannered, normally aspirated, street B20s putting out well over 200 HP, but we are.

John
V-performance.com