and so it begins

[IHateHacks]

Whoa calm down there buddy

There is an easy way around it. I used a whiz wheel. It's a 90 degree angled die grinder with a whiz wheel attachment. I used the red 3M abrasive disc meant for aluminum (block is harder than aluminum, its cast iron). I just lightly hit the block with it, at light throttle, using circular motions, never staying in the same place for more than 1 second. You can see what it did to my block in my BHG post. I've been beating the shit out of my car for 200 miles so far and its just fine.

I had a lapping tool but no compound, plus I didn't even want to attempt to get the dowel pins out so I just went the easy way. You can say all you want about my method, but it works. My block actually looked better than ddmcse's did after he lapped it by hand. Thats not what I said, He said it after looking at my block in person.