Stop in for a cup of coffee

-
We had a shepherd when I was a kid in the desert, kept the unfriendly wildlife away from the house. She got frisky with the neighbor dog in an unprotected fashion :lol: I soon had little hairy siblings :lol:. My real sibling/little sister couldn't be found one day. We looked everywhere in the house for her. Went out the back door where the toy box had been converted to a shepherd condo and found the sister cuddled up with all of our hairy siblings and Sheba was watching over them all. Sheba was not happy when we began removing Sis from the condo :lol:
 
Unconventional said:
and that helmet meets DOT specs :lol:
Click to expand...
Funny thing, years ago when they decided to pass the helmet law the legislation did a poor job on wording it. As a result we would tie the helmet around our leg get our tickets go to court and get it tossed. We were in fact wearing the helmet.
Hehehehe!
 
Unconventional said:
Safe as them little plastic pudding bowls I see so frequently on rider's heads. :steering:
Click to expand...
So funny thing when they then passed the Law saying a helmet had to have a DOT sticker as a way of getting rid of the fiberglass molded bowls, the legislation did a poor job of wording it! Thus every bike shop had a role of “DOT” stickers on the counter with sign says take one, free! We slapped em on and good to go! Are ya seeing a pattern of non confirming behavior here?
Hah!
 
toolmanmike said:
But may be not good news. Or correct news. Or true news. I just tried to get there in Google search and same thing. It must be bad JuJu.

View attachment 1716316383
Click to expand...
I am simply amazed at the impact social media can have on today’s news feed. I doubt there will ever be a level playing field again.
 
quick question; how rough should cylinder walls be when using stock style piston rings in a semi-hot 318?
320 grit? 400?
 
WV64Signet said:
Check this guy out! Welcome back
Click to expand...
thank you; its good to be back, I haven't touched my car in at least 5 months. had expectations of building a 8000 rpm 318 and was making good progress until it was time to actually get it to the machine shop and then I realized that it would be undriveable on the street. so now i'm going to slam rings and bearings in the current engine and just zero deck the block to get more compression out of it. (to actually match the cam I got in it) should be in it around 500$ and it'll be done way quicker.
 
shittyslant6 said:
thank you; its good to be back, I haven't touched my car in at least 5 months. had expectations of building a 8000 rpm 318 and was making good progress until it was time to actually get it to the machine shop and then I realized that it would be undriveable on the street. so now i'm going to slam rings and bearings in the current engine and just zero deck the block to get more compression out of it. (to actually match the cam I got in it) should be in it around 500$ and it'll be done way quicker.
Click to expand...
Cool

I don't have the answer to the original question on cylinder walls

@toolmanmike
@RustyRatRod
@Tooljunkie

shittyslant6 said:
quick question; how rough should cylinder walls be when using stock style piston rings in a semi-hot 318?
320 grit? 400?
Click to expand...
 
I think it depends on what kind of rings you're using. I'm going through the same kinds of questions building a slant right now
 
shittyslant6 said:
thank you; its good to be back, I haven't touched my car in at least 5 months. had expectations of building a 8000 rpm 318 and was making good progress until it was time to actually get it to the machine shop and then I realized that it would be undriveable on the street. so now i'm going to slam rings and bearings in the current engine and just zero deck the block to get more compression out of it. (to actually match the cam I got in it) should be in it around 500$ and it'll be done way quicker.
Click to expand...
Drive em man drive em! Save rabbit holes for second car!
 
from Engine Builder Mag..

Most OEMs and ring manufacturers specify a surface finish of 15 to 25 RA for moly faced rings, which can be achieved by finish honing with #280 grit stones. Cast iron and chrome rings can tolerate a somewhat rougher surface finish (20 to 35 RA), so coarser #220 grit stones can be used to produce this type of finish.

Engine Cylinder Bore
 
well good news and sorta bad news...

I got the motivation to rip the engine out of the car, and in doing so, I found that 2 out of 4 flexplate bolts were looser than I really like; the motor mount bolts were loose, and the crank bolt was a quarter of the way out.

other than that; it's going really well.
 
shittyslant6 said:
well good news and sorta bad news...

I got the motivation to rip the engine out of the car, and in doing so, I found that 2 out of 4 flexplate bolts were looser than I really like; the motor mount bolts were loose, and the crank bolt was a quarter of the way out.

other than that; it's going really well.
Click to expand...
Sounds about right!!!
 
shittyslant6 said:
quick question; how rough should cylinder walls be when using stock style piston rings in a semi-hot 318?
320 grit? 400?
Click to expand...
Welcome back! First, I don't use "stock style rings". They are regular cast iron and unfaced. I use moly rings on everything. I would step up to something better were I to build something like a race only deal....which I likely will not do again. The moly rings will be fine. I use ball hones from 360-400 and call it good. It's always worked for me and I scarcely ever have one even poof out one puff of smoke even on initial startup.
 
Went for a drive with the wife unit on a trail we haven't been on for 25-30 years.
1729123499019.jpeg

1729123577216.jpeg

1729123683755.jpeg

1729123779954.jpeg

1729123850795.jpeg

1729123931725.jpeg

1729124035701.png
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
-

Back
Top