Dingle berry honing (or whatever it is called)

The only machine shop with torque plates for a mall block is Dvorak machine, and Mr. Dvorak takes awhile to get blocks machined because he has so many blocks waiting in line.

The best i can get local is a bore, deck, and align hone. Everybody has the stuff for sbc, LS, or whatever, but SBM. If I remember correctly the deck-bore-align hone should be corrulated by a specific angle (90 degrees?) -it probably doesn't matter at the power level of the crane 693901, but the next motor i build with Rusty's 693801 cam might need some of this specific machining
Yeah it's rough out there still, should be standard practice with plates for all makes. I done quite a few with no plate that did just fine, but I too if given the choice rather a tq plate be used in the finish hone.