I have a question for you, do you plan on adding water passaged on the deck? On my aluminum block we added the two water passaged right below the center exhaust ports. I also had problems with the 1/4-20 oil crossing holes in the front china wall leaking oil, we tapped them 1/16 NPT. Also one of the rear oil drain back hole is mostly covered by oil pan rail and gasket.

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