Thread: Gapless rings??
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Old 07-02-2002, 08:08 PM
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Well, I gave total seal a call, and spoke with one of their techs, and he said there can be a problem with ring flutter (when excessive gas pressure builds up between the rings and prevents effective ring sealing) when using their gapless 2nd rings with 13 - 14:1 compression engines, running with highly efficient exhaust gas headers at high rpm's, greater than 7500 rpm's, i.e. winston cup engines.

He said there shouldn't be any problems with any street or moderate performance engines.
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