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Originally Posted by reclino View Post
Did a bit of careful measurement of a cylinder today. The top of the cylinder is about .0003-.0004" smaller than the bottom. So indeed there is a bit of taper, which will go away once the cylinder warms up at the top. Surface roughness is spot on at 6 RA and feels just a bit rougher to the touch than the reworked cylinders. Now to clean everything and check the ring gap.
Is this what we refer to as "choke" with aircraft engines? Or is this technically something different?
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