In reply to a message from N�ck sent Sun 19 Jan 2014:
Neither Carsten nor his machinist trusted the
specification supplied by Mahle, a company in their own
country who gave repeated plain assurance that the spec
was tried and tested to be correct. I was sceptical myself
until I heard those reassurances, at which point in the
absence of any other dimensional data besides the single
criterion of skirt clearance, I might have obeyed their
instructions. Having done so, I’d have gone after them
big-time if it had seized, but it’s such a stark-staringly
obvious risk area that if the maker says X who am I to say
Y? Which leaves only the variable of how competently the
block was bored and the engine assembled.
Pete–
1E75339 66 D, 885958 62 FHC,1R27190 70 FHC, 1R28009 70 FHC
Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States
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