| Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,780 | Give the cylinders a good cleanup with a dingleberry hone, and then measure taper wear before you get concerned about rust pits. If there's over about .005" of taper, you'll need to do a rebore job and use oversize pistons. That will clean up all but the most severe pitting. A 69 block will handle a 60 over piston with no problems- - - - -I've run those blocks in 500+ HP round track applications at well over 7K RPM. Jerry
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