Here's a look at the exhaust port.

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Ground down casting marks and polished with stones and various other bits of 180, 240,320 and finished with 400. The foreground is not as good as this pic looks, with the light reflection, but the barrel end sides and the 'dip' is a fairly good representation. Looking into the bore you can make out the cross hatching, if that's a term, of hand (three finger) honing, as I don't have a honer yet.

Below is the inlet.
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Just used a small stone to remove some casting irregularities and 180 grit. couldn't get into the sides of barrel end very well, a Dremel is definitely on the list before attempting another.
Heat proof painting didn't adhere very well, probably due to final clean with turps instead of metho. ??

Comments welcome, including critical analysis, as trying to learn here.

Cheers.