Is it possible to have too thick of a cylinder wall?
Hypothetical example: Take a 400SBC block and sleeve the 4.125in bore down to a 4.00in bore. Have the walls gotten too thick and too much heat's going to stay in the cylinder?
Thinking of taking a larger bore 4.1L Buick V6 block (3.965in bore) and sleeving it down to 3.800in bore for LSR usage both to stiffen the block up as well as meet my displacement limit. The 400SBC reference is intentional since the 4.1L has siamesed bores like the 400SBC while the 3.8L and smaller blocks didn't.
Thoughts?
Hypothetical example: Take a 400SBC block and sleeve the 4.125in bore down to a 4.00in bore. Have the walls gotten too thick and too much heat's going to stay in the cylinder?
Thinking of taking a larger bore 4.1L Buick V6 block (3.965in bore) and sleeving it down to 3.800in bore for LSR usage both to stiffen the block up as well as meet my displacement limit. The 400SBC reference is intentional since the 4.1L has siamesed bores like the 400SBC while the 3.8L and smaller blocks didn't.
Thoughts?
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