Quote: ...I was eventually planning on pulling the engine in a couple years for a proper rebuild with a stroker crank...
Since you plan to build it right at a later date, just bolt it together and run it.
This is the best plan , I wouldn't cut the bleep out of the heads for a bandaid and then once you redo the shortblock you run into a new problem ... TOO MUCH compression because you you halfassed it the first time ...
