Recent content by Newbomb Turk

I’ll say this. I NEVER EVER said the ELECTRODE is copper. EVER. If you had a clue you’d know what I’m saying is correct and that’s this: The material for the CENTER WIRE is not the same comparing Champion, NGK and Autolite plugs in that order, Champion being the softest and autolite the...

Ok. It’s not the detergents fault. It’s the tribologist who built the oil. I’ve never seen any evidence of detergent killing ring seal.

Why no detergent?

All Torco oils have detergent and dispersant packages. When I bought my piston rings Lake Speed and I were emailing and we were both struggling to get our thoughts together. So he had me call him. We had two areas where there were questions. One was why I am running full groove bearings and...

Yeah, get out out and see what you have. I’m interested to know what it is.

Zinc is in every engine oil. It has to be or it’s not engine oil. Excess zinc is BAD. Buying an oil and then adding zinc is BAD. Very smart dudes (chics I’m sure so no one gets offended) spend decades learning tribology. They understand what happens to an oil when you add another ingredient...

It depends. Sometimes it’s on the other end but it should be on that end of the cam.

And coil bind. I didn’t say that because I doubt he’s running enough lift to get there but certainly he’s got more spring load in the exhaust.

Yeah, that drawing is wonky.

It’s fine

Find a shop that uses a profilometer when they home. If they don’t, find another shop.

lol. Sometimes money doesn’t make these builds worth doing.

I do t know of bigger than .060 overs for the 318. They could be out there. If it needs to be honed to save it you can coat the pistons with Line2Line’ abradable coating. IIRC they can add up to .020 on diameter. I coat every piston I can. With that coating the piston runs at near zero...

Nothing new in this post. If you ever tuned a boat or a road course car you’d see your error. Because some “expert” prints it you buy it.

lol. So you can’t refute it but it’s BS. Got it. BTW, some “experts” run the engine as hot as you can because it makes more power. The same “expert” wrote the above. Edit: WTF did I say in post 66 that’s bullshit? There is something wrong with you.