DirkRhodie
Member
So their response was that they only lightly skimmed both decks......but as one can see on my assembly the left bank of pistons are all definitely " out the hole" as per my uploaded pics.
They say it can be remedied by skimming both sides of the connecting rods big ends and re honing/cutting to fit the bearing shell's.......now to me that's complete stupidly and even if it did work it would mean a total rebalance of the rotating assembly.
No mention of who covers the costs....
The most annoying thing is I have used the same shop a few times on other projects and their work has always been tops.
I have in turn spoken to a V8 specialist in Johannesburg and he says I must work out my clearances and calculate the correct gasket size for bothe banks and order from Cometic as they do have gaskets of various thickness.
As long as my compression ratio is correct on both banks then I shouldn't have any issues....
They say it can be remedied by skimming both sides of the connecting rods big ends and re honing/cutting to fit the bearing shell's.......now to me that's complete stupidly and even if it did work it would mean a total rebalance of the rotating assembly.
No mention of who covers the costs....
The most annoying thing is I have used the same shop a few times on other projects and their work has always been tops.
I have in turn spoken to a V8 specialist in Johannesburg and he says I must work out my clearances and calculate the correct gasket size for bothe banks and order from Cometic as they do have gaskets of various thickness.
As long as my compression ratio is correct on both banks then I shouldn't have any issues....
