"Seasoned" engine blocks?

From: Jon Steiger (stei0302@cs.fredonia.edu)
Date: Fri Nov 26 1999 - 00:50:43 EST

  I forgot to mention this in my other post about the article
in MPN. The article said that they use "seasoned" engine blocks
for the crate motors and short blocks. I took this to mean that
they are used blocks. They say that an engine is better after
its first rebuild because the block is now "stress relieved".
They say a new block can be stress relieved, but thats costly,
so what they do is to use a "seasoned" block and bore it .020
over, which is the same thing.

  Is this true, or are they just trying to sell us a story?

                                              -Jon-

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