Looking for a thread that had a youtube video of different honing tools & which one worked better, like a ball hone versus a 3 finger hone.

I don't have a dog in this fight, but I have my own engine dyno, and you can tell on the blow-by meter which engines have been honed with a deck plate or not. IMHO when you go to a machine shop you need to ask 2 questions "do you have a deck plate" and do you have a "Profilometer"? If the answer is "no" to either of these question, go to a shop that is not stuck in the 1990s.

I have a set of deck plates for my own use, on a filled 4.375 bore 400 block, the cylinder distorts .00075. Now that doesn't seem like much, but in fact it produces 10 spaces (the head studs distort the block) where the tension on the piston ring is lighter and blow by will occur.

Joe