Originally Posted by Nihilanthic

Uhh.... What?

You dont need to do a rebore, new pistons, or any of that crap, unless you ACTUALLY need to. Most people do a small bore for better breathing anyway, plus more displacement never hurts... but you dont HAVE to.

Longer rods mean you need shorter pistons, and you dont always need bigger bearings - but obviously, new bearings/rings cant ever be a bad thing. But you dont need to go to a damn machine shop to clean it up and put in new bearings and re-ring.

Hell, you can re-ring from below and leave the heads on, if youve recently done topend work and CBF'd to remove the heads, lol.