If your re-honing a block and its out of the car I can't stress how important it is to have it power honed with two torque plates. We get honed blocks here all the time that is evident they were honed without torque plates. You can see every bulge from the head bolts when run and the rings didn't seat. Its never the oil ring its usually the compression ring and it causes motors to run hot when the top compression ring isn't seated. Every motor that gets done here gets torque plates, Harley's , Subaru's, Hondas, V-8's , Diesels, all motors while line bored , bored or honed. and if we don't have the plates he makes them from 2 1/2 inch aluminum plate we have in stock. He has cabinets of plates made for this reason. Here he is making a set for Subaru apposed boxer
