I can measure the change in bore size between the bolts without the head. Especially on a small block with 4 big bolts. It's critical on a modern rebuild IMO.
Well, art is art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water! And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now, uh... Now you tell me what you know.
