So I picked up a B17 block that's got a chip in it. It's at the driver's side between one of the bolt holes for the mount, and the head gasket surface. A little piece of the outer head gasket is missing. Is it possible to weld material in to fill in the chip, retap the mount hole, and resurface the head gasket surface? I don't have the original piece of aluminum, and it's getting darton sleeves if it makes a difference.

So, is it possible to repair this and have it be just as reliable as a block with no chip in it? I want to run boost on it in the future, and don't want issues with it.

 

Id ask darton to see what they say since they are sleeving it.. but IMO i would never repair something like that.

 

get another block...

 

it can be repaired

 

dammit! i just noticed the bigger chunk missing on the left side. yeaa, that's pretty bad... i'm not gonna use it...

 

As cheap as blocks can be found, I'd just get another one.

 

Def get a new block, I had a drivers mount on the block break and had it fixed and ended up breaking again not long after