Help on deciding to resleeve a block

[andyleonard]

4 hours ago, 02Les said:

Hmmm, that's a lot of rebuilds. Why did you/someone have to keep rebuilding it.

Well, the original sleeve wasn't on my watch but came in a car. Ten years with a dogleg and 4:11 got #2, #3 was a track day spin into sand out in the desert with open airhorns. #4 was a 9.3 piston that cracked.  Mitigating factor is that one kid was a kart champion 3 years running, one of the other kids is a better driver...and we live just off Mulholland. I think the word you're looking for is *abuse.*

[danco_]

30 minutes ago, andyleonard said:

Well, the original sleeve wasn't on my watch but came in a car. Ten years with a dogleg and 4:11 got #2, #3 was a track day spin into sand out in the desert with open airhorns. #4 was a 9.3 piston that cracked.  Mitigating factor is that one kid was a kart champion 3 years running, one of the other kids is a better driver...and we live just off Mulholland. I think the word you're looking for is *abuse.*

ok you win 

[bublinki]

danco,

Every time I see that friggin photo, I die laughing!!

Phil

[tzei]

Okay so toying with the idea... How big of a sleeves can be fitted / largest bore that can be achieved? N/A std tune.

 

Any experience?

Edited January 25, 2022 by tzei

[NickVyse]

1 hour ago, tzei said:

Okay so toying with the idea... How big of a sleeves can be fitted / largest bore that can be achieved? N/A std tune.

 

Any experience?

 

after seeing an m10 sleeving post by Steves Machine Shop in Azusa, CA, I asked the question about max possible bore - he hadn't done it but reckoned 94mm "might" be possible.

 

With the price is s14 blocks gone through the roof I'm surprised no one's offering this. Or may be they are?

 

[tzei]

Yeah that's what i was thinking of. I have a couple of decent sets S14 93.4 mm pistons soooo... could it be possible. I know S14 blocks have been sleeved to that std bore but casting is so different compared to M10 block.