Finding a good 350 block to bore .060

While now days there are quite a few blocks to choose from! A 4 bolt truck block with a high nickel content has always been a good choice! Making sure of little core shift at both cam ports front and rear assures that the cylinders being more centered to the casting should have good cooling and be more equal for a .060 engine! Check for a emblem marking at the lower ledge on the right rear bank just above the bell housing ledge! A 2 pointed crown or single hump sometimes with a slash cut-out! Some car blocks had all the holes drilled and were used in trucks too! Starter bolts of three, a drilled and tapped top bell-housing hole, 2 front mounting holes for a lower p/s mount or right side belt driven fuel pump if needed, a front oil pressure plug above the timing cover on the right! Even a two bolt is fine with these things and markings! Holes can be drilled and tapped if the need be during prepping! A truck block can have a taller deck height if stroking or needing more valve or fuel clearance running 208 valves if you want to un-shroud or tapper! I like more room for flow on top! Decking may suit your purpose or just buy the pistons and save the clearance and horse or two in flow! Drilling or taking out the back oil ledge at the lower rear of the block can save some oil drag at this point! A bead ball hone can de-burr the lower cylinders to prevent scratches on pistons and keep more oil on the skirts as a knife edge there will shave it right off, the same as a sharp lower edge on a piston! Just sand them off and run .006 on the piston to cylinder clearance or more if you wish because the oil can now get in and take up the slack! This trick helps to add cooling and horses to a .060 block! A really centered block can go .080 and still run cool on gas with a few more up-grades! A sonic test can measure wall thickness if you feel the need! A lot of horses between a .030 and a .060! I would have to say at-least thirty to fifty if running 200 degrees on a .o30 and 150 on a .060! The cheapest horses out there are the ones in your head and not in your wallet!