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Re: Engine questions

To: quattro@coimbra.ans.net (Quattro List)
Subject: Re: Engine questions
From: Andrew Duane USG/PE <duane@zk3.dec.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 08:23:25 -0500 (EST)
In-Reply-To: <199612050530.VAA28093@oly.olympic.net> from "Bernie Strub" at Dec 4, 96 09:30:22 pm
Reply-To: duane@zk3.dec.com
Sender: owner-quattro@coimbra.ans.net

Hairy green toads from Mars made Eric Fluhr ask:

> I was wondering if you could take
> a 2144cc engine, bore the block by 1.5mm or 3mm and use the pistons from
> the respective 2.22L or 2.3L engine.  Would the stock CIS system be able
> to deal with the larger displacement?

Wouldn't this have a problem with cylinder wall thickness? Boring 1.5
millimeters out of a cylinder would be dicey, I think that 3 would leave
you no wall at all.

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References:
- re:Engine questions
  - From: Bernie Strub <bstrub@silverlink.net>

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