Fast rebuild?
I've only ever had the head off of my engine. I know piston #2 is pitted pretty bad, the others are ok. I didn't feel any ring ridge in the cylinders.
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Might be good to know why you had the cylinder head off recently. I know this sounds dumb, but did you use a torque wrench and the factory recommended sequence to torque the head bolts?
I worked at a service station in a town in Saskatchewan and was using a torque wrench to tighten some bolts one day. A farmer that did mechanic work on the side came by and asked if my "feel" was not good enough. Nope. Some time later he did an overhaul on a 400 Ford. The next summer the fellow stopped at the stop sign. I was watching out the window while airing up a tire. When he stepped on the throttle to go, a huge cloud of smoke can out the exhaust. Straight into the station and asked me what happened. I replyed that without looking into it, my money was on a blown head gasket. He then asked why I figured that, I responded that the person that screwed the engine together did not believe in torque wrenches. When I pulled it apart the sled rockers were worn bad and the cam was also worn. Turns out when he had torn it down he tossed all the parts in a pail so they did not go back with their previous mated parts or positions.
An RV type cam and new lifters, a double roller timing chain, rebuilt exchange heads, 16 new rockers and pushrods got the top fixed. I also pulled the oil pan to check the bearings and torque all the main and rods. Cost more for me to do the top end correctly than what he paid for the rering and bearing job with "lapping" the valves. The valves were also worn around the seats.
Justice; he got to screwing the guys wife.
