Guys,
Alusil has worked well enough that is was used for 944, 928, 968 engines with no apparent serious problems ... and Mercedes and Ferrari have used the process in several high-end cars' engines, too! From a rather inauspicious start at GM ... it has made quite a bit of progress throughout the world's auto industry in the past 35 years! Had Porsche not taken a rather big step in 1973 ... the Vega engine might have been the end of the line, and a rather nasty footnote for the Reynolds 390 alloy and engine cylinders!
Some of you may be fixated on myths and racing history ... the 917 Turbo-weapons used Nikasil cylinders, and knocked the McLaren Reynolds 390 alloy Chevy engines from 430 - 494 CID range off the Can-Am podiums ... but the 917 didn't accomplish that fact until a couple of KKK turbos were hung off the tail!!!
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Warren Hall, Jr.
1973 911S Targa ... 'Annie'
1968 340S Barracuda ... 'Rolling Thunder'
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