[tarmon8r]

Motor in sign. Professionally built Less than 5000 miles, more like 2000, not exactly sure. Spun #1 rod bearing, had crank turned. Replaced rod, new bearings. I am wanting to do this right!!! I plasticgauged the bearing last night. Arp moly lube.yada, yada, yada. I am really trying to dot my I's and cross my T's. Everything else was fine internally except for the spun bearings and the crank needing turning. I went on a got another oil pump, slight imperfection internally. I was at the car wash cleaning my block getting ready to assemble everything this weekend. Mechanic next door came over, looked and recommended me to hone it. Hand hone with the spring stone. Bought one, with some cutting oil, and honed the cylinders for 20 sec to clean up the glaze and slight discolorations from the motor sitting for 2 years. Not rust, just gunk. And of course, idiot me didnt do a search on here to find out if it was a good idea or not. And of course, there are mixed reviews. The "professionals" (i.e. Kato Engineering) are not big fans of it at all. Did I just make a major mistake? I am on a deadline, trying to make the ocean city car cruise in two weekends, The problem was, I wasnt thinking. I just took the mechanics word as the correct thing to do, I had been thinking about honing it, and he just reinforced my thoughts but I think i went about it wrong based on his advice. My only saving grace is that I did try to do it "right" with cutting oil and only 20 sec hone job as per the instructions on the hone. Plus I wanted to start concervative. Glaze is gone and i can still see very slight transparent outlines of where the "gunk" was and a cross hatch. Can post some pics if some very knowledgeable bros need to see. Advice? thoughts?
Thanks in advance.