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Waste Land

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My uncle races drag bikes and has connections with machinest who i am friends with also. I'm wondering if it will be sweet to shave some on the engine to raise the compression some. Dot hey make higher compression pistons for these cars. Has anyone ever thought about mix matching parts...take the crank from one engine, piston from another, and rod from another to playw ith compression....maybe I'm just stupid i dunno
 
well youd have to shave the sleeve too and make a nother flattened top to seal it with a gasket then youll have a good chance of burningyour engine because your temps will sky rocket because these are diff from draggers because the lubrication is in the fuel unlike drag cars and the more heat in these=less lubrication=greatly reduced engine life if you want some more puch get some 30% fuel and shims then correctly tune it
 
Waste Land try Porting your engine and sleeve before you go replacing and mix matching parts. Don't even know if that's possibel really. What else here Port the exhaust the sleeve. Also a little polishing of the sleeve is ok from what I understand. Shaving heads and all that isn't really recommended.
 
Alot of people have made modifications using different parts. If it works, why not. Give it a try, you'll make an improvement to the engine.
 
You will never know unless you try..

Everything ha sits test stages. Like the Sirio piston/rod for the 2.5's

someone had to say... Mmmmmmm will this work..
 
You typically get better results by slightly increasing the cumbustion area and nitro content.
 
Opening the induction port on the "closing side" a few degrees is the easiest way for sure fire H.P. gain if done carefully, then polish the crank ind. port (you can open the crank hole some but not to much. Flow the opening at the rear of the crank & if it doesn't have a scalop on the crank face add one. Start with a small scalop at the crank hole, flowing out of the port & curving in the opiset direction of crank rotation into a point. Start with a scalop about 1/4" long & 3/16" wide at the port to a curved point. It doesn't have to be a deep scalop at first about 1/16" at the widest part to just a smigum at the tail. Flow the edges. You can also scalop the counter weight (to the left of the crank pin looking from the rear & flow it the same way. So instead of the counter weights flat top hitting the mixture, it in affect scoops the mix into the crank case. Cranks that have this done are called "tubo cranks". Start small & do a little at a time. You'll see almost instant results in power from the start. Ok someone is going to say "hold on bro"!!! aren't you taking weight off the crank counter balance & upseting the engine balance??? Technicly yes, but most engines are only balanced to 30% anyway so unless ya want to get into balancing engines which includes weighing everything & doing the correct calculations what you remove is minimum so balance is no great concern. Now that you have you mix really flowing good, you'll want to look into those transfer & exh. ports---later for that. Try this first :mex:
 
We run drag cars with 40-50% nitro with .012 shim on the head to boost compression.We also open the crank diameter and polish it.We also add turbo ports to the face of the crank if it does not already have it done.Most of us are running highly modified motors like jp black.As long as temp stays low enough and you are not blowing glow plugs reducing shim clearances and increasing nitro percentage is the cheapest way for more performance.I have run my jp almost every weekend for a year this way.
 
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