Re: Kanter Deluxe Kit for V8

Posted by Scott726 On 2008/7/20 11:46:47

V8,

My next door neighbor is a cracker jack machinist. He put the piston on a surface block, skirt down and measured around the top. It was six thousandths off. Then he shimmed it at the skirt until the top was level with the block all the way around. He verified that the ring grooves were level as well. Then he touched off on both sides of the wrist pin hole, it was off six thousandths. The rod bearings weren't tapered, I already plastigaged them. To be fair, the engine had other issues; a bit of bad babbitt which I caught before it screwed anything up (on a different rod/piston) and some blow by between #2 and #3 cyl at the head gasket. Maybe a thrust bearing issue too, not too sure about that yet.

You don't have to worry about me getting rid of the piston, I am going to frame it...

Scott