Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 21:37:40 -0600
Reply-To: John Rodgers <j_rodgers@CHARTER.NET>
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From: John Rodgers <j_rodgers@CHARTER.NET>
Subject: Re: Big Valves for me?
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I've got an engine project sitting on my bench. Strange situation. I
bought my van from a dealer lot. I'm resonably sure that mileage, about
89,000 as I remember, was correct per the speedometer, because I did
some work on it and all the seals were intact. About 1500 miles later
the engine burned a piston clear through. Now I'm easy on vehicles, and
this thing gave me no warning, just happened on a long trip.
Anyway, when the engine was removed I discovered a yellow tag on the
case that said Remanufactured by Volkswagen of Canada. Now that was real
surprise. That meant that in the 89,000 miles of the vehicle there had
been two engines in the vehicle. And at 90500 miles I was about to
install the third engine.
So, I now have the third engine in the van, stock, and it now has 40,000
miles on the engine. 131,000 on the van. The broken engine sits on my
bench. And the question would be, how many miles on that engine. Well, I
have allowed that perhaps 45,000 max. That is half the total miles that
had been put on the van up until that time. So, I have an engine that
basically is good shape, except one cylinder. There was no other damage
to the the rest of the engine, just that one cylinder and piston.
Now my goal is to build a little bit hotter engine, performance wise. So
what you have done interests me very much. So I ask the
questions.....Who provided your big valve heads? Who did your stroker
crank, and what was the offset? How much did you have to take off the
top of the pistons to maintain compression suitable for regular
gasoline? Stock rods? Source of Pistons, Cylinders, Rings?
Got any idea what kind of horsepower increase you got?
Thanks,
John Rodgers
88 GL Driver
Damon Campbell wrote:
>82mm stroked crank (sent mine off to be modified) and
>95mm pistons instead of the 94s.
>
>The funny thing is, this combo has been used in europe
>and to a limited degree here in the US a fair amount
>(well, for how relatively few wbxs there are out
>there).
>
>-Damon
>
>--- John Rodgers <j_rodgers@CHARTER.NET> wrote:
>
>
>>What else did you do to get 2325 cc?
>>
>>Regards,
>>
>>John Rodgers
>>88 GL Driver
>>
>>
>>
>
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