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Ill have more pics to post next week, the machine shop is now pressing in and boring a couple 0.25" thick ductile sleeves. Going with 0.003 piston/bore clearence. Also sent cams out for grinding and gas nitriding to surface harden. They said they may or may not have a profile suitable for my ca...

Yeah that sounds like it would have worked great, I didnt know that could be done to make up for wear.
I imagine there would also be less risk involved taking that route

If you mount hole for o2 sensor, I suggest to do ot on each cylinder (placed before pipes connenction). I found that my rich fuelling issues comes only from front cylinder. Great advise! That is the plan, I have one sensor with a guage, but I will have a mount on each pipe with a plug in one, or th...

There is no need to re sleeve if only going a single or two size overbore, the motor as is can easily handy it. If the motor had a catastrophic failure that significantly damaged the bore there are still other options than re sleaving. The OEM case/ cylinder can be bored and honed It can be bore, p...

Thanks for some feedback, I will post more when I can. I may start a couple other topics for a few other mods i am doing as well: Wide band 02 sensor to tune carbs easily Ignitec programmable ignition module I have a flow commander installed, so maybe a little reveiw while using the wideband. There ...

Im in the process of a rebuild of my Storm. After deciding to use & ordering JE high comp pistons, I realized my bore was not perfect.... I either needed a set of os high comp pistons made, or resleeve the bore and use the ones i have. After going to 3 machine shops, I've finally found one capab...

Here is a cheap easy tool to adjust your carb screws without having to buy a expensive special screwdriver you will likley only use once... This took me 45 min to make You need: 18" speedo cable (it will turn just fine at extreme angles) 18" Brake line A few tools. Bend a tight 90deg at th...