Well, I pulled the engine and tore it down. Other than some carbon buildup, looked good.
Soda-blasted the head and combustion chambers and lapped the valves.
Wasn't sure about the cylinders, don't have the tools/skills to check them myself, so I took it to a place called
Gardner Racing Concepts. It's the only motorcycle-savvy machine shop in the area. This guy is apparently a pretty big wheel in the motorcycle drag racing scene in the Northeast. He builds engines for all sorts of race bikes and specifically custom cranks for Harleys.
When I went to see him, I fully expected to get a polite brush-off as I'm just freshening a street engine, not spending the budget of a mid-sized country on a full race engine.
To my surprise, he took me right in, and examined things right then and there. Took a couple of valves and chucked them up in his grinder to check for straight stems and concentric heads. All good there.
He started to hone the jugs but couldn't get his Sunnen hone set up right and didn't have time to fool with it then, so I left the jugs there. This was about 10 days ago.
Called him today and the jugs are ready, just needed a light honing.
I asked him how much I owed him (he'd quoted $75 per hole for boring) and he said....
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"Nothing. I don't have enough time in it to bother charging you!"
Which is baloney, he spent at least an hour with me on the day I took them up, and I'd bet he's got another hour in the jugs getting the hone set up and honing them.
I don't do much motorcycle machine work, but this guy has my business for as long as I can manage to hoist a leg over a bike. And I'll recommend him to anybody that will listen.