David,
This block is the 6 bolt 289.
As I get into this process, hoping the pistons (Ross forged) and cylinders reusable with a very light hone for new rings. As a 347" stroker there could be more side wear I have read. The pistons were supposed to have a raised pin to help minimize the angularity. Has never used much
oil to speak of.
The block was already bored to 0.040...had heard that is about the limit for the 289 block in a high performance app. How thick the walls are is unknown although it never had a tendency to overheat.
Was going through the MAHLE/Clevite catalogue of bearings (mine are the Clevite 77 series). Looking at the bearing wear patterns library I see a little bit of every problem on every different bearing...
Trying not to worry about much, but at least have an idea of what to go to next if the any of the major stuff is unusable, keeping in mind its going on the track.
Pete