This is very interesting information for us VW guys. If you can trust this information to be acturate, this is a major technology breakthrough. Although it seems that the technology is not that new, it may be just now be being applied to the aircraft world.
I have always wondered about the roughness of the castings of the VW jugs and thought the billet stuff would be better but this information far exceeds what I would have expected. It looks like these jugs answer all of the needs, more power, better heat disapation longer TBO and so on. Does anyone out there have experience and real world data on this? And then it makes me wonder. Could a guy build a better VW using a scat block, the right cam grind and crank combined with these jugs and get a better, stonger VW in tyoe 1 or type 2 form? Jeff York KR-2 Flying N839BG Home page http://web.qx.net/jeffyork40/ My KR-2 http://web.qx.net/jeffyork40/Airplane/ to see my KR-2 Email jeffyor...@qx.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Heath" <da...@alltel.net> To: <kr...@mylist.net> Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2006 5:26 AM Subject: Re: KR> Great Plains Sale! Limited Time!!! That is a great price on the Nikasil cylinders, but be aware that you need to also change out your head studs and the new ones for the Nikasil are expensive. I also understand that you are better off with the 94mm cylinders as the 92mm are much too thin at the top, for the amount of heat that they have to deal with. If you want to see what the real NickiesT like, and what they cost, check out: http://www.lnengineering.com/index.html See N64KR at http://KRBuilder.org - Then click on the pics See you at the 2007 - KR Gathering There is a time for building and a time for FLYING and the time for Flying has begun. Daniel R. Heath - Lexington, SC -------Original Message------- Just stumbled on this one... If you are in the market for an engine or engine kit... check this out! http://www.greatplainsas.com/beetle2006web pdf Marc Lee Winnig _______________________________________ Search the KRnet Archives at http://www.maddyhome.com/krsrch/index.jsp to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html
