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Originally Posted by ahh911
Tony,
I admire your guts to post your experience. It helps us all to keep these things going. I didn't have the guts to re-ring my alusil. I need a hobby anyhow, but I think it turned out okay. I would have liked new rings, but I read several owners had noticed that the originals were better than the their replacements in some way or other I forget, so just left them in.
Phil
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Phil,
You can not survive in this business if you rely on guts alone. Nor rely on luck. You need to have plenty of test results and evaluate them. If you could replicate data or test results, you could arrive to a reliable conclusion. Not because it worked the first time, it would work all the time. There are several critical variables you have to consider in your work or test.
I have rebuilt several motors and ran them in the track. The very first time, I was not even sure if they would survive the brutal test run. As time went by, I feel confident that re-ringing alusil cylinders in good condition is an option people could take. And I’ve done it multiple times and found no adverse effect. And I had rebuilt my first motor 25 years ago and few more projects followed.
Tony