More bearings, more friction as Bill stated, and you will lose power and not
gain much in the reliability area. To what point? If you want to spend
some time on that engine, work on the weak point of the engine, the head and
the ports. But, even without more bearings and valves etc it still makes
nice engine power for something that was invented about the time of Caesar.
I worked on this for a while but could not see an possible way that I would
ever get the investment back or even close. Mordy Duns has worked out a way
to give you less power and two more bearings I believe.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Larry Young" <cartravel@pobox.com>
To: "Tony Drews" <tony@tonydrews.com>; "FOT" <fot@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2009 7:19 AM
Subject: Re: [Fot] TR4 main bearing caps
> This wouldn't be that difficult to do. We already have cranks available
> with the extra bearing surfaces. Just bolt or weld in a couple of extra
> webs. Believe it or not, this was a common era modification to Model T
> motors.
> Larry Young
>
> Tony Drews wrote:
>> If we could figure out how to make it a 5 main motor, now THERE's
>> something to aspire too.
>> - Tony Drews
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