Since you're asking "what the crank should be ground at", I'll assume you're using a factory crank. When I had mine done,due to the indexing of the factory crank I started with, 3.908 was all the machinist could get without going to a .010" U.S. B.B.C. bearing. Could have gotten more stroke with an undersize bearing,but I thought material left for future machining/freshening was more important than a few thou, extra stroke.Your particular crank may allow more or less depending on what it was originally ground at. Whatever stroke you end up with, machine the block to set the deck height to the desired level after a mock-up and measure session. The factory didn't always hold the decks equal side to side or end to end back in the day.