Intro to a port job

14 years ago when I rebuilt my 360, many of the machine shops I called wanted to do more work than I had in mind. Rods for one they wanted to resize. This motor was fine when taken apart all highway miles no internal problems. This 360 originally came out of a pampered 1975 chrysler cordoba. Only reason owner stopped driving this car was front end wore out! So machine shop also wanted to line bore block which also was not needed. Heads were junk so I found some nice 340 x heads. My dad has a straight edge tool to check heads from snap on they checked fine. Also machine shop wanted to suface again not needed.

A novel concept, measuring stuff before you "fix" it... I've seen more stuff made worse or ruined by extra machining. 14 years and still running strong? How could that be, without all that needed special machining? ;-) That would be a topic for another thread. The only engines I kept were virgins. Not interested in someone else's "rebuilt" engine.

Once you mill a cast iron head, I have never seen them need to be milled again.