<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-size: 12pt; "><span>Hey Doc,</span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; ">Since I do it so well let me play devil's advocate here from half way around the world.</div><div style="font-size: 12pt; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><br></span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">Why use Aussie heads that only produce 375 to 400 Hp in street form when you can run closed chamber Cleveland heads that someone has thrown away or 302B and/or any similar alum heads that make so much more Hp (475-525 at the REAR wheels)?! ;-]></span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><br></span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">If the answer is, "because I don't have cool 302B alum heads like you dawg"....or
its, "the Aussie heads are just better"...then I gotta say since I am IN Australia now and I am hearing from the boys down under who want to seriously go fast that they all want quench or closed chamber heads. They will pay YOU to take their Aussie heads!!! Yea even in street modified weekend race engines that get driven on the street. ;-]></span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><br></span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">Working for sheep herders wages down under I'll take a Aussie BLOCK if I can find one cheeep ecause I know they gotta be special because Jack keeps telling me that like he keeps telling me someone is gonna make a NEW Cleveland block to replace my 10 over Cleveland magic jack block I got from JB but I don't think thats gonna happen. I suspect in September when I come back to the States to kick some bow tie ass at Silver Sate it will be driving that
same stock Pantera averaging somewhere around 150 Mph then driving to the Green Lantern to shame all the bow tie slackers pretending they are real </span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">racers ;-]></span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><br></span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">Okay rant over. Is it too soon to mention who won the Indy? ;-]></span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><br></span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">PS did the Drewster ever get his engine running again?</span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><br></span></div><div><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 127, 64);">Aussie Dawg Down Under</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Team
Pantera Racing</span></div><div><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 191);">"No One Gets Out Alive" </span></div><div><span><www.teampanteraracing.com></span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; "><br></div> <div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "> <div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Charles Engles <cengles@cox.net><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> 'Asa Jay Laughton' <asajay@asajay.com>; detomaso@list.realbig.com; tpr@teampanteraracing.com <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Saturday, May 26, 2012 1:06 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [TPR] Piston Ring Rotation.<br> </font> </div> <br>
Dear Asa,<br><br><br> The first and second engines I built were done with the standard<br>ring positioning protocol. I then learned the truth: the rings *move*<br>during engine operation. They do not remain permanently in place. The<br>first two engines were with Aussie heads and made 401 and 385 hp.<br><br> The next two engines were built with 4v heads and absolute<br>carefree disregard for the prime ring directive. Dyno testing showed 440<br>and 485 hp.<br><br> I am about to begin the next engine and I will continue with my<br>laissez-faire piston ring assembly. It doesn't seem to hurt engine<br>performance.....!<br><br><br> Scientifically yours, Chuck Engles<br><br><br>Original Message-----<br>From: <a
ymailto="mailto:tpr-bounces@teampanteraracing.com" href="mailto:tpr-bounces@teampanteraracing.com">tpr-bounces@teampanteraracing.com</a><br>[mailto:<a ymailto="mailto:tpr-bounces@teampanteraracing.com" href="mailto:tpr-bounces@teampanteraracing.com">tpr-bounces@teampanteraracing.com</a>] On Behalf Of Asa Jay Laughton<br>Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2012 1:59 PM<br>To: <a ymailto="mailto:detomaso@list.realbig.com" href="mailto:detomaso@list.realbig.com">detomaso@list.realbig.com</a>; <a ymailto="mailto:tpr@teampanteraracing.com" href="mailto:tpr@teampanteraracing.com">tpr@teampanteraracing.com</a><br>Subject: [TPR] Piston Ring Rotation.<br><br>Most of us are aware of the proper ring positioning when assembly an engine:<br>http://www.351c.info/gallery2/d/218-1/ringspacing.jpg<br>The two compression rings should be spaced about 30* (or about one inch)<br>from the front centerline of the piston, one on either side. The oil ring<br>segments are the same on
the opposite side of the piston toward the rear.<br>The illustration above shows this quite well.<br><br>But do the rings rotate after assembly?<br><br>A few years ago at the POCA Fun Rally, Jack had an expert who was familiar<br>with pistons. He said indeed the rings do rotate, so in the end it doesn't<br>really matter where you index them to start with... <br>they're going to move.<br><br>Today I recorded the ring locations on my forensics engine. I had been<br>careful not to turn the rings on the pistons when I removed the pistons/rods<br>from the engine previously. Because I can't insure they didn't move at all,<br>the relationships below are rounded. Here are the results. My "timing" is<br>from the -front- of the engine, moving clockwise. The piston position at 12<br>o'clock is the part facing front, the position at 6 o-clock is at the rear.<br><br>The first compression ring is at the top, the second on the
bottom.<br><br>Piston 1st Comp 2nd Comp Oil/Oil<br>#1 8 o-clock 4 o-clock 4/2<br>#2 10 11 12/3<br>#3 10 2 10/1 (probably the only one closest <br>to installed)<br>#4 8 8 8/8 (All ring gaps were lined up)<br><br>#5 9 2 5/5<br>#6 12 9 5/5<br>#7 5 4
6/5<br>#8 9 3 3/7<br><br>As you can see, they are all over the place. I'll work up a good<br>illustration and post it later.<br><br>Does this mean I won't index them the next time I assemble and engine? <br>Actually, I'll most likely still index them when assembling, only because<br>I'm anal about those things and I do believe spacing them does assist with<br>initial break in. If they are spaced the same, I look at that as an easy<br>path for compression gasses to get past. In other words, gases might get<br>past the lower tension oil ring segments and past the gap in the bottom<br>compression ring but then they'll have to travel around the edge a while<br>before they meet up with the gap in the upper ring. In the end, it may not<br>really matter.<br><br>Asa Jay<br>Pantera Research Institute, Pacific
Northwest<br><br>--<br>Asa Jay Laughton, MSgt, USAFR, Retired<br>& Shelley Marie<br>Spokane, WA<br>******************************<br>http://www.racingagainstautism.com<br>http://www.teampanteraracing.com<br>http://facebook.com/racingagainstautism<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>TPR mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:TPR@teampanteraracing.com" href="mailto:TPR@teampanteraracing.com">TPR@teampanteraracing.com</a><br>http://lists.teampanteraracing.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tpr<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>TPR mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:TPR@teampanteraracing.com" href="mailto:TPR@teampanteraracing.com">TPR@teampanteraracing.com</a><br><a href="http://lists.teampanteraracing.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tpr" target="_blank">http://lists.teampanteraracing.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tpr</a><br><br><br> </div> </div> </div></body></html>