<VV> VirtualVairs Digest, Vol 46, Issue 68
corvairs
corvairs at pacifier.com
Tue Nov 25 15:37:49 EST 2008
Smitty - Yes, it is a little strange. As to the boring/honing under
torque, of course you are correct, no matter how the torque plate is
designed there is no way to be certain it will mimic exactly how it is
torqued in the engine. BUT, I think (as do most others in the business
of boring/honing Corvair cylinders) that we can probably get much closer
by using a torque plate than not, since obviously we know that the
barrels don't operate in the engine "free floating".
If you want to say that we all may not have it quite right is correct.
But I'd be hard to understand you believing that we haven't at least
done something logical towards that end! Lon
www.corvairunderground.com
Smitty Smith wrote:
> I got a kick out of this. I haven't ever heard of anyone grabbing a cylinder and squeezing it while the engine was running. Nor do I believe that small a distortion will affect ring sealing. Nor do I believe that clamping a cyl with a plate while boring/honing will gurantee that the cyl will take on exactly the same shape when it is clamped onto an engine. If it was that big a deal then we would have lots of "new rebuilds" that the rings would only seat in after thousands of miles.
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