Where did you ever get an idea like that????? Typical turn down of a crank journal is .010 for clean up; go to a parts store and buy a set of feeler gauges, open them up to the .010 thick leaf, now tell me just how much strength is gonna be lost??? With that kind of reasoning, boring your block over size means you are reducing the strength of your block, so you should never over bore a block; right?? Are your buddies chevy guys????
It's good you are in a non-spending planning stage at the moment, paper is cheep, write down ideas, do some research, with careful thought and action will get you where you want to go
