TYPE lV NIKASIL CYLINDERS, From 98mm to 104mm Options

[Type 4 Unleashed]

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[cnavarro]

As i've done in the past more than once, i'm always open to loaning a set of Nickies for a side by side comparision to put on the dyno and collect data with the datalogger. Short of that, some FE or material analysis along with actual long term testing is in order- nothing short of what we went though before selling Nickies to the public with the original 2615 that built and a sister engine built by Jake. The latter has seen 100,000mi of use and abuse. Our test engine went through 35,000mi before it was torn down and parted out. The cylinders were re-ringed and used on another engine built by Jake. Through this testing, we've had cylinders come back for routine inspection and we've been able to verify dimensional stability. CMW has gone one step further and used rockwell testing to monitor our cylinders in their customer's race engines.

BTW, I have all the tooling and master molds for a cast 102 Nickies cylinder. There were just too many compromises going with a casting in our opinion and that's why we went billet, for those who didn't know.