Sal,
Good idea. I will look into it. But the engineering and tool paths are already done for the Nikasil lined bores. They would have to be bigger to accept a sleeve. For now I will see what happens on the dyno and the decide.
David I,
Repeat after me, "I need a new block. I need a new block. I need a new block..."
David
AKA little red devil
acschlary,
GREAT QUESTION! I had the same one myself. So, I started looking.
There is no side skirt on a Chev 350 and Jeff Gordon runs one at 9000 rpms for 500 miles every Sunday. Look at the Dart picture I posted...no skirt. F1 engines don't have a skirt. Most blocks don't have a skirt--very, very few have skirts. After looking at the real world and what was going on in the real world, I decided skirts were more effective in marketing engine blocks (and on women) than they were in going fast.
Commander,
Yes, I in my post I said, "See the picture of the Dart billet block with ribs and bolt on water jackets." I posted that picture so you could see you can still have bolt on water jackets and ribs. In an earlier post you said, "I object to calling it "moon glow" engineering instead of just admitting that it can't be done and still have the one long water jacket cover in the valley." So, I showed you a picture of where Dart solved the problem by using multiple bolt on water jackets.
We simply elected to not have ribs...or skirts.
Like I said, thank you all for your comments. Questions like these will all have to be answered so customers will feel comfortable buying one of our blocks. I appreciate ALL of the comments! The thing I understand most, however, is many of these questions will have to be answered ON THE DYNO.
David
