Hi,
do you people bake your engine parts? I always hear rebuilders say the block and other cast parts were hot tanked and "oven baked" to stress relieve the casting. Now that sounds very sophisticated, but does it help and how do you actually do it? How hot and for how long? Will that cause any distortion in the block or decrease any distortion it already has from use?
I've heard that almost all cast iron parts are baked to clean and "for good measure" I guess
Is it something you should do when rebuilding an engine from scratch?

Just curious... Max