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bfit:
mate think of what would the rings look like if there were no piston in the bore.
( usually done to check ring gap )
I must admit, I have not bothered with ring cap for a street engine for some 40 odd years.
Bfit

70vette:

--- Quote from: Vettech on October 20, 2016, 12:10:51 PM ---Sorry for asking, but I dont see the inards of an engine that often, but some pics ago I can see the block and 4 cylinders, nice and clean bright and shinny top to bottom, but now this last pic they look like they have a step or grooving or something 2/3rds down and at the bottom. So! What am I looking at ? Why?.

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The steps you see are the rings after I had filed the ends to a specific measurement so that I didn't mix them up. Did each cylinder individually.

--- Quote from: Bfit on October 20, 2016, 12:29:42 PM ---mate think of what would the rings look like if there were no piston in the bore.
( usually done to check ring gap )
I must admit, I have not bothered with ring cap for a street engine for some 40 odd years.
Bfit

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I had never done it before either. The last one I slapped together was 35 years ago but after allowing someone else to put my motor together it has brought me to the situation i'm in today.  :tears: So although you can still buy rings that you can throw into your street motor and off you go, I decided that it was not really a street motor and it needed to be built to a specific need. Mainly  :drag:

Vettech:
Thanks guys, now that I've looked again and expanded the pic, I can see what look like gaps - so rings. Thank you.

70vette:
Nearly finished the engine. Date and dyno booked. :banana: Hope it starts :fingerx:

sirfixalot:
Put a couple of short 3/8 unc bolts in the 2 holes on the front R/hand side of block one of them goes into an oil gallery, too long it will hit fuel pump push rod.

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