360/410 Stroker Questions

You can check your block for "square" by taking one assembled rod/piston and sticking it, one atta time, into the four-corners, and checking the deckheights. But if you have had the crank machined or the block line-honed; it may not tell you the whole truth.
>What I did was to take that one assembled piston/rod and measure every hole. and compare them one to another from deepest to most shallow, numbering them not by location, but be deck heights.
>Then I put every piston on the same rod, and using the same hole, I measured the deck height of each piston. I must say, with the KB107s using this method, they were all as good as the same.
> then, since I had had the rods resized and new bushings installed; I next installed, one atta time, every rod with the same piston, in a specific hole, measuring the deck heights as I went. What I found was, you guessed it; 8 different deck heights, indicating 8 different lengths. I again numbered them from longest to shortest.
> next, I put the longest rod in the deepest hole with an appropriate for the location,piston. And so on.
> lastly,I oriented the squirters and re-numbered the rods for future RnRs.
then measured the clearances,then measured the sideplay, but just recorded it not really caring what it was.
What I ended up with, was one high piston, one low piston, and the rest were plus/minus about .0015; pretty darn nice I thought...

It took a really loooong time

Then it was time for the file-fit rings.........