Lots of head gaskets oughta work.

Mike

:>)

On 3/23/03 10:59 AM, "Damon Campbell" <damoncampbellvw@YAHOO.COM> wrote:

> All i'm doing for now is increasing the bore and
> stroke... the engine will end up with a 2.3
> displacement.  Turbo is way (way) down the road...
> assuming i can even get this put together correctly
> :-)  None of this that i am doing is revolutionary, by
> any means.  There are people doing crazy things with
> water boxers - far exceeding these minor mods.
>
> It looks like i am going to stick with hydraulic
> lifters, though.  I am not going to be running higher
> RPM (my ultimate goal is to get enough oomph to run
> higher gear ratios/lower rpm comfortably).
>
> It seems as though the proponents of the mechanical
> lifters tend to be rooted in more of a racing school
> of thought.  This is still a (somewhat) daily driver,
> so just "having it work" is appealing.
>
> Thanks for the input, all...
>
> actually, one other question: what is the best way to
> maintain the compression ratio when increasing the
> stroke?  The current working solution seems to be
> machining down the tops of the pistons - which seems a
> little excessive.  Any suggestions on this one?
>
> Again, thanks,
> -Damon
>
>
> --- Craig Oda <craigoda@COMMUNITYBUILDERS.INFO> wrote:
>> Stan, when went down to Damon's garage to check out
>> his engine, he
>> mentioned that he was increase the stroke of his
>> engine and I think
>> getting a hotter cam.  I'm not sure what he's doing
>> about the valves,
>> but he did have a turbo charger on his shop table
>> which he indicated
>> that he was going to hack on, so I think he's going
>> to run it at higher
>> than normal RPM.  Just FYI.
>>
>> -- Craig
>>
>> Stan Wilder wrote:
>>
>>> Unless you're going to run big valve heads and want
>> to run your engine at
>>> higher than normal rpms, I'd stick with stock.
>
>
> =====
> '84 Westy (Sparky)
> '65 Kharma Ghia (Dharma)
>
> __________________________________________________
> Do you Yahoo!?
> Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop!
> http://platinum.yahoo.com
>