Broken Cooling Fins on cylinder - How Bad?
 

I just dissassembled the engine in my car this afternoon and the good new is that someone rebuilt my 2.2T with 90mm RS P&Cs! The bad new is that a few of the cooling fins are broken off.

I've attached a pretty crappy picture but it shows that a piece of cooling fin has broken off on the bottom side of the cylinder. Two of my cylinders are like this - how bad is it? Can they be reused as is? I'm thinking of selling them and don't want to screw anyone over on useability of the set.

Regards,
Andrew M


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I'm looking for same answer, but also with respect to heads. Sounds like they can be repaired. Maybe if it makes sense cost-wise, you could find a junk cylinder (or head if it's for heads) to break the needed fin from. I was going to look into doing that for my situation.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/911-engine-rebuilding-forum/151033-broken-head-fins.html

I had a broken fin on one cylinder, and was told that it wasn't a big deal, but it wasn't that big of a chunk either.

I had a broken fin on one of my heads on account of not shipping them correctly to CE. I was assured that it was ok. Seems to be so after 6000 miles.

Lee 78sc