I bought a Lysle (SP?) brand professional adjustable tension cylinder hone in the early to mid 1970s along with several BHJ steel torque plates for wedges,,426 hemi and L.A. motors, I spent one entire afternoon honing a 340 motor with both heads bolted and torque down honing from the crankcase side of the block with that mechanically adjustable tension hone with a 5/8 Craftsman electric drill motor, I was honing it to get two shadows out of the cylinder walls caused by the outer head bolts and the block not being bored and hone with a plate originally
That was the last time I tried to remove more than .0020 or more with that hone, way cheaper and easier to pay the machine shop the $40.00 for torque plate honing back then than spend 6.0+ hours doing it myself