Recent content by StrokeMyWarrior

Can you bore out the stock cylinder to 85mm?

Also, when you line the cam sprocket up at the top, it will never be perfect with the dot, it will either be a bit left or right. Make sure the sprocket dot is just barely left of the dot, so that when you put the tensioner on the cam chain it pulls it right, or back to center.

What exactly would be the advantage of doing this other than weight? Just curious

Man I wish mine was that clean. The guy I bought mine from used to let his very young grand kids abuse the crap out of it and make it a mess.

It's something a lot of people have done and it seems to work. If it doesn't work, then I"ll just get my stock one repaired and take the shims out. I have it in a shop right now getting tuned, stuff too detailed for me, so we'll see when I get it back.

Glad I could help.

I put in a Hot Rods +4 and just used a stock piston, but I used extra gaskets as a shim under the cylinder to get it to under 0 deck height.

Timing the balancer is pretty easy from what I’ve heard, there is a dot on each gear, and all you do is line them up (with the gears keyed in place of course). If I’m wrong , I’d like to know the proper way.

I should add that I have a flat top piston.

Is it ok to run my motor at zero deck height? I have put a +4 stroker in and put a thick gasket under the cylinder to put it at 0 deck height. Will the valves hit? Also would I be able to run any pump fuel?

I have shunned it to 0 deck height. Is it safe to run the engine at 0 deck height with a flat top piston? Will I need high octane fuel?

The crankshaft is Hot Rods and the cylinder/piston is a relatively cheap kit but every review said very good things, and the next step up from it was about $400 at the time.

So even if my deck height is just a bit over, I won’t hit the cylinder with the piston? I run a flat top that has small notches for valve clearance.

Is it ok to run at 0 deck height on high octane pump gas or should I shim under the cylinder to get under 0?

I have the crank though, all I need is the piston, and I don’t really have that much money to drop on just a piston. I may just go with a vertex and bore the cylinder to size and shim it with a thicker gasket if I need to.