At 1:08 PM -0800 2/10/2002, Max Heim wrote:
>Well, the first question is, can you get pistons for anything more than a
>.060 overbore?
>
>
>Max Heim
>'66 MGB GHN3L76149
>If you're near Mountain View, CA,
>it's the primer red one with chrome wires
Yes. Pistons .080 and, if memory serves me correctly .083 are
available. The .083 pistons are the pistons that give one the 1950 CC
engine. I have never run pistons that large- I run the .060 pistons.
I have spoken with some who do run such engines, and they tell me
that they have no trouble, but that not every engine may be
successfully bored to this size. Apparently they bore the engine to
.080, and then if all is well, they hone the last .003 to arrive at
the final bore. If the engine is not able to tolerate the .080 bore,
one may re-sleeve the engine but is then limited to the .060 bore.
Again, this is second hand information. I have never done such an
engine (yet). I can only attest to the .060 from personal experience,
in the B engine I run in my A and the engine we run in my Wife's GT,
and I have had no problems from this bore in over 30,000 miles.
There is a performance increase over the .040 bore. As always, YMMV.
--
Bob Shaw
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