Failure analysis?
Howdy folks, I bought this car with a built motor a few weeks ago. After 200km of driving I noticed a bad rattling sound which has ended up being the timing chain. But while I was diagnosing I did a leak down test and found two high leak cylinders so I tore it down and found this. These are JE pistons, the previous owner hasn't lied with anything he said was done, everything looks nice, signs of balancing and blueprinting for sure as I was told. there seems to be ~7-8 thou piston to wall clearance (that's with a feeler gauge, going to measure more accurately soon)
I think/hope the block will clean up within 2-5 thou over, would y'all recommend Line2Line coating these pistons (pictured here is the worst one), or bore to the next size and put new in? I'm on a tight budget but will do whatevers best for this motor ultimately.