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4 l-bodies
Yup your machinist bought himself a forged steel early block crank. NOT gonna work in your engine. Had one guy on this forum weld his up, machine it in several areas, to put into a CB. Cost... drum roll please... about $1250 IIRC. IMO, that machinist should be on the hook for selling it to recoup the funds and not you. That is what happens when you hire a machinist that screws together SBC or Fords. They all think they can put together a 4 cylinder with their eyes closed. I think your guy literally did that!
I just partially disassembled a fully assembled but un-fired engine put together by some guy and his Dad who was a auto mechanics teacher. There were so many things wrong with it, it needs to be completely disassembled and everything checked. Locating pins in deck of block, optional I guess. Lets try to put a CB crank sprocket on an early block, ARP head bolts that bottomed out in block rather than tighten cylinder head down. Buys Chinese head then sticks a bunch of money porting it and putting in performance valvetrain. Intake bolts that wedged up against headbolts because they were too long. Round-tooth sprocket on crank and aux. shaft, but square tooth on camshaft? Huh? List goes on and on.
Todd