Block Warpage?

[Reeves]

While assembling and painting my freshly machined block today, my buddy noticed a big warped bubble on the front of the block. Upon further inspection, it is a BIG warped bubble. It is just above the oil pump/distributor shaft and the timing belt idler pulley. Laying a straight edge across it really shows how bad it is. What is this? Is it going to be OK? Anyone seen that before?

[supercrackerbox]

Any way to post a pic?

are you talking about the side the timing belt sits on? that surface should be machined flat, maybee from a broken intermediate shaft or something in the past, was the block magnafluxed?? that doesn't sound good to me.

[Reeves]

It's on the side with the timing belt...just above the intermediate shaft seal.

Don't know.....but will run it anyway I guess.
Too close to SDAC to do anything about it.