Originally Posted by
b19 dfp
at the end of the day chip, i and lots of engine builders have been using long studs now for a very long time and in all this time on a lot of these engines we havent encountered the problems that you and others are on about,infact i know of several big powered engines that are still going now and have been in competion use for over 10 years also do you think a yb mountune have built just gets thrown away after a few k???of course it doesnt it gets built again and again...
you can beleive what you want but as said if your building a yb with more than 400bhp and the scope to go higher why not just give it its best chance by long studding it????
cheers danny
The problem that Karl is talking about is a gradual bowing of the block, when engines are rebuilt, the block is faced anyway, so if its rebuilt continually its not an issue, its if you want to build it and leave it in one piece for 40K miles that you will have an issue.
If you are building an engine for massive power on race fuel with huge cylinder pressures then that slow distortion of the block is a small price to pay for the sealing that you get, but if you arent doing that then why should you pay the price?