From: David Kelly on 19 Jul 2010 13:56 On 7/15/10 1:23 PM, Wudsracer wrote: > The benefit of resleeving the cylinder will be that the sleeve can > be rebored to an oversize when the bore gets worn. Catch-22 is that if its a plated cylinder one won't find much in the way of overbore pistons. > The drawback to resleeving is that (I was told) that the sleeved > cylinder has slower heat transfer. (longer warm-up time, and possibly > slightly hotter operating temps in extremely hot weather.) > I know from experience that a resleeved cylinder will work well. The problem is making full contact all the way around the sleeve. Any place the sleeve fails to contact, or contacts lightly, will run hotter than others. Sleeve will distort when heated unevenly. Maybe this will be a problem, maybe not. No matter, sleeves were better for aluminum block Chevrolet Vegas than the factory's bare aluminum cylinder because the block was such a sorry design in the first place. Cast iron cylinder head only made matters worse. |