[Fot] IMSA TR8 lost a conrod

[TeriAnn J. Wakeman]

On 10/20/16 6:54 AM, Ted Schumacher wrote:
> A more cost effective positive liner location method is to pin the 
> liner to the block.  Ted
What usually kills the blocks is slight head gasket edge damage that 
allows hot gasses to get forced around the liner on the power stroke to 
force its way between the liner and block, damaging the block.  A lot of 
the larger Rover engines need to have their block replaced between 
100,000 and 150,000 miles because of this. The top hat lines keep the 
gases from getting around the liner and destroying the block.  The issue 
is not the liner moving.

TeriAnn
>
> On 10/19/2016 8:52 AM, Duncan Charlton wrote:
>> Chris,
>>
>> The top hat linered blocks are the way to go, from what I hear.
>>
>> There are new (not remanufactured) engines available from RPI in the 
>> UK (I’ve had good results using them in the past when I was 
>> rebuilding my Morgan Plus 8’s engine) and their website has some 
>> useful information on it as well.  You might check their ebay pages, 
>> although I don’t see any bare blocks for sale there at the moment.
>>
>> Duncan Charlton
>> Elgin, Texas USA
>>