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Yeah but he'll have a nice built engine.

And if you're gonna do that, might as well go big. Get ARP Main studs, have the main bearing caps line honed or bored. If you need to have the crank reground, make sure you have it re-nitride coated. Thats a heat treating process that hardens the surface of the bearing journals, the factory cranks come like that (although lotsa people swear some of the 2g ones were not, and that is one small factor in the crankwalk issue). And you might as well get one of those aftermarket main girdles. Blageo23 just had all this done, and more, to his 4G64 block. PM him for more info!