piston seting

A method for repairing cylinder head bolt holes including removing the cyder head from the damaged cylinder bore and removing an adjacent cylinder head from its adjacent cylinder bore. A drill base support is installed in the adjacent cylinder bore and drilling platform studs are installed at locations corresponding to the drill base stud holes. A drill base and a jig are installed and a drill

Cams, or camshaft, and effect on performance

Wild or "race" cams are just not suitable for a road car. They do not allow you to drive smoothly in say 4th gear in town because they make your engine run "lumpy" at low revs! And you will have an uneven idle like a bike engine. They "CAN" give some performance benefit at higher revs though, but only if the rest of your engine and induction system and exhaust are also modified to take

Engines - some very basic knowledge!

Before we can understand how to tune engines or to make more power from an engine we need to have a good idea of how engines work. There is no point talking about nitrous, turbocharging or chips or supercharging if you don't really understand how this makes more power! I will give a really simple view here that only relates to power! Here we go then... Engines