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I meant to share these earlier, but the wifi at work isn't the best.

Still sitting on it while I finish changes to my pulling tractor. I hope to send the block for machine work (make sure everything is square and in line) next month, and I need to get the pistons first.

Sounds like you've mostly already been where I would like to go! (splayed mains and balancing) What IP are you running?

Block to block (bare)

It is a Chinese bare block.

All this and renovating a house for my boy.

Will, it will be a while. My shop is only big enough for one project at a time, and I have two motor jobs going right now. My antique pulling tractor engine is just waiting on the head and paint, so I need to get that wrapped up first. But I plan to have a thread dedicated to the build.

I picked it up at the seller, 380mi round trip Monday. About a third of a new Optimizer.

I will do what I can! For any of us who ever wondered...what if? I'm not proud of where it's made, but if it can be made square, I think we all should know if we have alternatives. And no, I have never been accused of doing things the easy way. All the guts will be American if Mahle actually...

The Shanghai Shaker? The Peking Pulverizer? The Bejing Bully? The Mandarin Migraine? Time will tell.

I'm not sure how long I'll wait to pull the trigger, but pm me with the results just in case!

Mr. Will, that is exactly where I'm at.

Big T, The problem I'm facing is in the design of the block itself, not who makes it. Eighty years ago engineers figured out that the nexus of power and efficiency for a diesel was a compression ratio of about 17:1. Look where all modern diesels are at. This is where the heat problem of a 6.5...

I'll look into it. I've made many runs to southern VA over the last three years to my daughter's college in Lynchburg. So the trip isn't a big deal.

I looked into one from Boyce in UT- $550 to PA