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Originally Posted by LoyWarr
This thing is gorgeous! As you said quite a bit different from what you originally envisioned. Wet sleeve, webbing in the lifter valley, I’ll be quite interested to hear what you learned from the F1 engines that you didn’t already know.
With cast iron sleeves and the bottom to go, what do you expect the final weight to be?
Again, that thing looks so good I can see glass windows in the side of the engine bay just to show it off, that or perhaps a lot of flip tops.
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Thanks for the kind words!
When we were looking through the F1 book we noticed they use wet sleeves. As we got thinking about it we realized we sleeves must have a better thermal transfer than dry sleeves because the heat has a thermal barrier as it tries to cross the boundary between the iron sleeve and the aluminum cylinder bore. Arguments were raised the sleeves could not be stable. However, the stresses on an F1 motor are beyond anything in the world we work in so that was dismissed. We figured, "Why not try it."
We added webbing in the valley because we completely removed all the support for the cylinder banks when we hogged them out.
The block is billet so we can change anything we want. We are not locked into any casting.
The final weight, with the sleeves and the girdle, should be about 95 pounds.
David
