To Sleeve or Not to Sleeve?

I ran a 427 sideoiler with seven sleeves... fix what you have.
I had a friend that was a fairly successful super stock racer, tell me that a lot of guys were sleeving their sbc blocks right off the bat , because the metal in the sleeves was better than the metal in sbc . We used 460 ford sleeves in the hemi when we did it, a real pro that died in a funny car crash did it back then .