[V8] Ball hone

[Scott Simmons]

Some of my friends on the east coast with Alusil blocks recommended:

McS Automotive Machine
61 Lacombe St
Marlborough, MA 01752

(508) 481-5071


FYI,
Scott S.


Sean cole wrote:

>Alright I'm sick of the back and forth act here.
>
>The answer is NO you can not use a typical hone on these motors.  It's going
>to destroy them also is true about running standard rings in these.  You
>need to run plasma coated chromoly rings in these motors since silicon is
>more abrasive then cast iron is.  Also if you are thinking over bore say
>good buy to ~200 a hole (~1600) for a set of custom pistons the V8 pistons
>are HUGE might as well go get some forged rods and turbo charge it.  Honing
>is possible a number of places can do it and any shop can call sunnen and
>order the hone.  I personally know a 928 Driver (Kim Crumb) who has done
>it.  Needed a block honed for new rings (he could get factory items) and
>paid the shop the cost of the hone to have them custom do it.
>
>The issue isn't the hone itself really it's the etching process also
>requires a special honing oil so you have got to drain all the old honing
>oil of of the hone clean almost all of it out just to fill it with this
>special oil.  Most shops I know unless they specialize in Alumisil
>reconditioning charge a huge setup fee to do it.   I've looked into the
>costs and I'll be talking to a Sunnen Rep in a few months (maybe around
>Christmas time or January) about the cost of getting a hone to do an over
>bore on a PT to 82-82.5mm.  I think if you get the right hone you can do all
>the sizes for the PT and ABH/ABZ motors so if I did go about getting the
>Hone I would then lease it to my boss (owner of Headwerks in Bloomington,
>MN) to use it on customer work.  I'm after building a DTM level PT so I am
>already looking at just about every aspect of tricks I can do to get the
>DTM's 130.5HP/L level (470HP 3.6L or 550HP 4.2L).  I have a motor with a
>broken block that will become the test motor for many items to come then
>later become a very beautiful polished V8 table with a nice granite base and
>glass top (man will that look great sitting in the living room).
>
>Sean
>90 V8q "UrS8" BBK incoming
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