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I have the dreaded Alusils!!!

I went into this rebuild preparing for the worst but hoping for the best. My nightmare came true today. Got a call from the rebuild shop. I have Alusils. However, the motor is in "excellent condition" according to the mechanic and we are going to forge ahead with a felt hone and re ring of these parts. He wanted to fully disclose the risks and let me make the call but was pretty confident it would not be a problem, especially since they are in such good shape. He's done "several" of them and it works well.

What's market value for a set of excellent condition used Alusils from a stock 3.0? I may be better off selling them and upgrading to Nikasils since it's a race motor and the lighter pistons would be better.
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Old 02-26-2004, 08:53 AM
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