14 years racing the same block is a great deal anyway you look at it. Hope she will give you one more year, and it might suprise you with a last personal best ET to boot! Before she gets retired as a daily driver engine, or in the garage as a momentum to remind us those good old times you had with it. We can make great tales of it..yeah was a very good engine, the best I did have of the iron block in fact. She was so good, every now and then when I went racing with it, she rolled up her sleeves like she meant Businness! Like Elvis Presley motto; TCB (Taking Care of Business). I have the same motto TCB (This Car only Buick)! Why cause it takes Care of Business just like it is! :beer
Re-sleeve that cylinder with a Darton flanged sleeve. It is made of 100,000 psi ductile material and will not fail. I use them all the time, even in blocks that have had holes broken through to water. They will run with a .070" wall and be stronger than the block was stock. Fill even makes the stronger. I recommend it. Stock replacement sleeves are barely 30,000 psi and are brittle. They absolutely require block fill when repairing a cracked block. Here is an alternative, Melling also now makes a hi strength HP series sleeve now too. They are 30% stronger than stock and reasonably priced. Since they came out, I've never used a stock type sleeve again even in a stock engine.
Not having to tear it down again for having the same old sleeve cracking and having the machine shop do all that work:TU:! I agree with the fella that suggested the rim sleeve, they are stronger then you think and can handle more then what you block can:TU:.
