Hey, you asked for a book, not actual experience. I looked around and found only:

"Popular Hot Rodding's SMALL-BLOCK CHEVY PERFORMANCE TRENDS, Vol. 1", HPBOOKS available from Amazon.com. This is the only book I found with actual pictures of how to clearance the bottom end of the block on page 146. I am a novice compared to many on this Forum, just a bolt-on guy, so I got cold feet and decided to just rebuild a 350. Another route is to buy a block from PAW which is already clearanced, but depending on where you are the shipping may be expensive as well as the block. As a novice the thing that worried me was the part about maybe having to shave/grind the rod bolts. I think I could handle the grinding to clearance the block but if I had to grind a rod bolt I know I would be in trouble. Sure I would like to have a 383 but I ran into the old economic limitation.

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder