So, I picked up a pretty sweet deal about a week ago. $800 for a white 97 in decent condition, the only thing was, it threw a rod through the block. So I bought a spare short block that I thought was going to be a simple disassemble and stock rebuild without having to spend the money to over bore it. Turns out, cylinder #3 has some gouges in it that caught the fingernail pretty good. I took the hone to it to see if going to the max tolerance would clear it up, but it did not. I've got the cylinder honed out as far as I can to keep standard piston size... The gouges are still about .001 to .002 deep in the walls if that. I'm basically trying to get the car running with the least amount of money possible. SO, what do you guys think? Am I okay to put it back together? I've built many 420a's, but I have never put one back together with scored cylinder walls and normally never would. I'm wondering what to expect if I do go forward with it like this. Will it burn oil badly? Anyway, really just looking for some input here as I have no idea what to expect if I put it all together without going with oversize pistons. Thanks!
Here's a pic of it after a little light honing was done. This is just cylinder #3, all other cylinders are just fine... I also honed it much more after these three pics...




Here's what it looks like after all the honing I can get away with....





And here's some pics of the car I got for $800.. Pretty eh?