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Old 09-13-2008, 09:14 AM
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Here are the nippon custom rings to match the pistons:



And here is the core engine being used. It is an extremely low miles 96 lsi motor which has been in storage for 8 years:

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Re: Race engine for my race svx.

Ooooo, this thread is starting to look fun

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Bill,

The squish area is the area outside of the combustion chamber. If you were to put a head gasket on a cyllinder head the area encircled by the head gasket and outside of the combustion chamber is the squish area--mainly at the top and bottom. The squish area is not gone or in any way reduced.
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Sorry, misstatement on my part. What I meant to ask is how you feel the flow properties within the combustion chamber will be changing since you're drastically changing the dome shape (not squish area) of the pistons going to the higher compression ratio.
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I think they will be good? I'm not sure what you are looking for for an answer here. There's a clear path for the turbulence from the squish area to shoot into the combustion chamber and deflect off of the valve recesses. I also did my best to eliminate any hot spots.


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Sorry, misstatement on my part. What I meant to ask is how you feel the flow properties within the combustion chamber will be changing since you're drastically changing the dome shape (not squish area) of the pistons going to the higher compression ratio.
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I think they will be good? I'm not sure what you are looking for for an answer here. There's a clear path for the turbulence from the squish area to shoot into the combustion chamber and deflect off of the valve recesses. I also did my best to eliminate any hot spots.
Michael,
Yeah, that's about it. I was curious as to your thoughts on the 11:1 pistons versus stock/9.3:1 since the 11:1 have totally lost the flat "plateau" in the middle of the dome. Thanks for the answer.
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Re: Race engine for my race svx.

Its looking good Michael, can't wait to drop that baby in the car.
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Boring and honing are done. Porting is done as well. I'll take some pictures of the porting tomorrow when I crate the heads up to send off for thermal barrier coating.
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Nice! Are you sticking with stock valves?
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Re: Race engine for my race svx.

The parts I use, the piston sidewall clearances, the ring end clearances, the oil clearances, even the porting I do varies with the application the engine is being sculpted to perform best in. This is a high rpm naturally aspirated engine being built for long, touring courses. Heavier, longer valves would be going in the wrong direction.


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Old 10-07-2008, 07:06 AM
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The parts I use, the piston sidewall clearances, the ring end clearances, the oil clearances, even the porting I do varies with the application the engine is being sculpted to perform best in. This is a high rpm naturally aspirated engine being built for long, touring courses. Heavier, longer valves would be going in the wrong direction.
Is a different waterpump impeller design going to be used as well? I was reading in previous posts about cavitation in cooling system due to the airpockets created by the waterpump running at such a high rpm.

The progress looks great . Can't wait to see the results.
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Re: Race engine for my race svx.

That whole cavitation in the cooling system at high rpms is just an idea someone posited, not a fact. Slowing down coolant flow for engines that operate at high rpm in order to give it enough time in the radiator to cool down is helpful in a lot of cars. In the SVX's case, however, it looks more likely to that the cooling system simply can't keep up with the demand of extended high rpm operation with only one fan running and, or the fan kicking in only after the coolant is already very hot. I believe that with both fans running the oe cooling system will perform well in extended high rpm operation. Anthony has done some testing which seems to indicate this is correct. This is something he is geared up for and ready to monitor in case further modification of the cooling system is necessary. The thermal barrier coatings I am using on the pistons, heads, and valves of course dramatically reduce the burden on the cooling system as well.



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Is a different waterpump impeller design going to be used as well? I was reading in previous posts about cavitation in cooling system due to the airpockets created by the waterpump running at such a high rpm.

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Re: Race engine for my race svx.

Alright... I'm thinking about selling my computer that I finished building a short while ago to fund a re-build of my engine... I'm gonna have to keep this in my mind and I'll get with ya LAN about getting something together for me... I am very interested in a NA build that would be good and reliable for around 300+ crank hp with alittle room to spare and great reliability...

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The thermal barrier coatings are done and the heads and valves are on their way back to me now. I'm going machine the step deck in the next few days so expect pictures of eg33 block halves bolted to a Spindle Wizard CNC vertical machining center with an Iscar facemill a spinnin and chips a flyin.
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