Ha! that would raise the compression too! And of course, I'd have to have it balanced again! I have the block all stripped down again to take to the machine shop, or for whatever we decide to do. If you look closely, you can see how the bores are offset slightly, to leave a little more meat in between them.
Having the block decked would be the easiest. Kind of a dumb question but if you go with the original stroker parts would that produce more power then decking the block? Probably not to be worth the trouble
Moar power, but not at the expense of reliability. It would be a pain to have to run race gas. The only rods I've stretched where the ones that escaped the block. Pretty messy procedure.
No, it would be fine with the original parts, and I think it might make a little more power, and that is one of the options I wrote above, just the most expensive one. And I would have to wait 2-3 weeks to get it in the cranky shop, and 2 weeks more for the parts - you need the new primary gear to know how far to machine the crank, then it has to be balanced.
Well, we decided to go with option 2, reinstall the original stroked crank and rods....to that end I did the 2 hour round trip drive back to the crank shop so I could find out if our crank was any good - it is - and whether he would have to grind the mains or rods, or both - he doesn't. I also double checked that the mains were 20 under and the rods 10 under before I order new parts again. Now that I have that all confirmed I went ahead and ordered the new primary gear, new rod and main bearings and a bunch of other small bits and bobs - to the tune of $300! Once this stuff comes in I'll schlep it all back up to the shop so he can grind the crank end to fit the mew primary gear bushing, then go ahead and re-balance everything to the new crankshaft. While I was going thru all these parts I found the rods I will be using are a good 60 grams lighter than the other ones - so we've added a little more lightness to the rotating mass. It shouldn't take a lot to balance it out since everything except the clutch and flywheel were in there before. Here's the sign on the front desk of the crank shop..... I also contacted Newton Commercial and they confirmed my interior is still another 4 weeks out, so there's no way this car is going to make t to the show in Snowmass this summer. So I'll need to spiff up the Racing Green Mini before I head west in late June for the mountains.
It's nice that you have a plan B Mini. Sucks that you've had some setbacks, but once done you will have a great Mini. It will be worth the wait!
Meanwhile my partner is done with the paint work, he even repainted the fuel tanks and they look terrific. He'll bring it back to my shop mid next week.
When Dan finished with the paint, it felt like glass! Way better than anything that ever came out of the factory when they were new!
Lemme see if I can find a better pic, his lights do tend to wash out the color in a photo I'll take a couple when it gets back home on Wed.....
Took the block over to the machine shop to have the deck surfaced, I put a straight edge on it and could see light at the junctions between the cylinders. It won't take much maybe 3-5 thou to straighten it out.
The Inno is on the trailer ready to come back to my shop today.....here's a pic of it out in the sunlight for Dnepr Dave, looks a lot more like it should in the daylight! And on another positive note, DHL finally has my package from MiniSpares, it should be here by Friday sometime, but given their recent track record, I'll expect it on Monday
The block and head came back from the machine shop, it only took 2 thou to clean it up. The parts also came in from MiniSpares too, so tomorrow I'll run them up to the cranky shop and hope they can get me set up quickly. In the meantime I've got plenty to do...….