carbide cylinder bore conversion (Bore Tech)

Greg Hermann bearbvd at sni.net
Sun Jan 10 23:03:17 GMT 1999


>At 01:33 PM 1/10/99 -0700, you wrote:
>>
>>Not really so when dealing with an 8 u inch polished finish. If the bores
>>are the same diameter (within a couple of ten thousandths, and all
>>straight, no prob. I thought about lapping each set of rings to its own
>>hole, but decided that the extra block clean-up was a nightmare (not to
>>mention stray lapping compound) waiting to happen. (Lapping compound in
>>this case would be more like jewelers' rouge than what you are used to
>>thinking of for lapping valves. WAY finer.) Lots of serious HP boat motors
>>are pre-seated this way. It works. Also saves a LOT of break in debris from
>>floating around insside the engine.

My impression was that it would be between $35 and $85 per hole, depending
on size, etc.

Regards, Greg
>>
>
>Just out of curiosity, what's the boretech treatment cost?
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