Coming into focus

I have been tweaking the block design to get it as efficient as possible in CAD format. I am working on a five year old laptop so I need to keep things as simple as possible in order to FEA and CFD analysis on it in a reasonable amount of time once I get to that point. While tweaking the design and dimensions I decided to factor in the water jacket plates last because I found myself working around them when there is absolutely no need for me to do that at this point. I got a hold of the dimensions for the main bolt locations which will give me an idea of where to place the main webs, but I am still going to hold off on adding them until I have all the dimensions I need. Here is what it looks like so far:

It doesn't look much different from the last update but there have been many changes made. I will be working on the actuators themselves today. Once a rough draft done, I will place them in the desired positions in the valley area and begin to add the necessary support structure for them to the block itself. These will be similar in design to linear hydraulic actuators. The biggest challenge will be for me to place them in this area along with the hydraulic fluid pressure and return bores, have them communicate with the main oil feed (in order to lubricate the cylinder heads via the pushrods), and making sure the hydraulic fluid and engine oil remain separated. I will be using the spreadsheets I have been working on to get an estimate on the necessary fluid passage diameters. Hopefully everything will fit with no problems and allow me to still use stock length Chevy pushrods.