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Originally Posted by Barry_R
Sleeving all eight was a fairly normal but spendy deal for Super Stock racing. Using ductile iron sleeves and staggering the diameters - .090 wall and .125 wall - you ended up with a more rigid block and better ring seal. Done right a fully sleeved block is better not worse - but it ain't gonna be easy to convince the average buyer that it's true.
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Back in the mid 90's in my dirt track days there was a guy running a winged car, he was a top 5 car every week.......He would buy a brand new standard bore bowtie block and bring it directly to a machine shop and have them sleeve all 8 cylinders, ON A BRAND NEW BLOCK, they order 16 pistons/ring sets and 8 new sleeves.........he said if he had a problem, he could just about pop out a sleeve and put in a new one with a new piston/ring set in a day and be back racing the next day. he did this for years..........
Racers are a crazy,weird bunch!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
David