Refresh on a 302: Any Advice or build secrets?

[Jerry Clayton]

Brent---there is a big differance in the way we build engines here in the shop and how we work on them at the races---
There is no way that I would bottle brush hone a cylinder here, but the bottle brush hone for use in the pits would be a lot better than the old drill driven Sunnen or Lisle hones that we used to use account of the bottle brush will not destroy the shape of the cylinder that is not supported with dek plates, etc!!

Doug is discussing a medium effort upgrading at his home garage( kinda like the pits) and I believe that (with the milage he has, a cylinder wall ridge could be a disqualifying problem),and as he goes along, he must be aware to keep in mind that at any turn of the wrench, it might develope into a remove the engine from the car scene----Changing cylinder heads or removing the oil pan to check bearings , oil pump change, etc are pretty minor to the complete machining of a complete new build with boring/honing cyl, decking, align hone---