Thanx, these are good shots. They show how te plates compensate for the 10°angle. The perfect round holes make it easier for the boring bar to register to the center of the bore.

Nice coach you got. How I whished we had s.th. similar. When I was a kid my family, parents and 3 small kids travelled from Germany to Greece in a tiny box. It was a FK-1000, which translates into Ford Kologne 1000 ccm. ford_fk_1000.jpg We broke down a few times during this trip. My pops has very go...

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Due to the MEL engine's unique design in deck surface and bore design engine builders have allways been faced with extra work to get the boring bar set up correctly to the MEL's block bore. A few years ago I have purchased a torque plate that was especially designed for the MEL block. They are in Ku...

I doubt if he would compensate for such a big loss of compression. I would rather go for custom made pistons from JR Pistons, Ross or similar than milling my parts' a## off. You would have to mill a lot I guess Maybe too much to leave some healthy beaf.
I could be wrong though.

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