New Type4 casings in South Africa / Nicasil Cylinders
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Re: New Type4 casings in South Africa / Nicasil Cylinders
Hi Riftvalleyvw. If Nickeys would shorten engine life, how did Porsche use them very succesfully in their aircooled engines, even in the turbo-charged engines?
Here is the link to LN Engineering, a supplier of Nickasil cylinders in the USA
http://www.lnengineering.com/type1.html
Read the paragraph "Do I still use my copper head gaskets" . They talk about "alimunum to aliminum sealing surface"
I admit, $1049.00 per set is not cheap.
Here is the link to LN Engineering, a supplier of Nickasil cylinders in the USA
http://www.lnengineering.com/type1.html
Read the paragraph "Do I still use my copper head gaskets" . They talk about "alimunum to aliminum sealing surface"
I admit, $1049.00 per set is not cheap.
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Re: New Type4 casings in South Africa / Nicasil Cylinders
I know where Jake got his T4 casings... a total of 4 of them. I tried to get to them before he did, but he beat me to it.
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Re: New Type4 casings in South Africa / Nicasil Cylinders
In the latest Vw Camper and Commercial magazine there is an advertisement for Type 4 stationary engines "that has only ever been test runned, but need alterations for road use" . If I remember correctly, they were from Big Boys Toys.
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Re: New Type4 casings in South Africa / Nicasil Cylinders
BBT is in England, so that doenst help us either..... I wouldnt believe the ad 100% anyway as they make a lot of their cash from engine building. It could be a test run rebuild....
What are the chances you can scan that ad for us to see? It would be interesting
What are the chances you can scan that ad for us to see? It would be interesting
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Re: New Type4 casings in South Africa / Nicasil Cylinders
OK, I will scan it over the weekend and post it here.
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Re: New Type4 casings in South Africa / Nicasil Cylinders
thanks
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Re: New Type4 casings in South Africa / Nicasil Cylinders
Hi Tony Z, check your messages.
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Re: New Type4 casings in South Africa / Nicasil Cylinders
OK, I see the type 4 engines are available from Vw Heritage and not Big Boyz Toys. I am having difficulty in posting the scanned advertisement here, but I'll keep on trying.
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Re: New Type4 casings in South Africa / Nicasil Cylinders
look on the right side of the page, near the centre. Ad for new T4 engines...
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Re: New Type4 casings in South Africa / Nicasil Cylinders
Just something interesting about type 4 industrial egines as advertised by Vw Heritage. Some of the early type 4 industrial casings ( code V and VO casings) were made of magnesium like type 1 casings and not aliminum as standard type 4 casings and " not suitable for an upright coversion or high pperformance".
See the http://www.tanacan.net website link
http://www.tunacan.net/t4/reference/case.htm
So dont buy one of these for a performance engine.
See the http://www.tanacan.net website link
http://www.tunacan.net/t4/reference/case.htm
So dont buy one of these for a performance engine.
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Re: New Type4 casings in South Africa / Nicasil Cylinders
I did not read up on those sites yet
but My Oval I specifically looked for a V block and used that to build my 2.1 with modded crank and did many miles on that one still know where to put my hands on another v block
but My Oval I specifically looked for a V block and used that to build my 2.1 with modded crank and did many miles on that one still know where to put my hands on another v block
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Re: New Type4 casings in South Africa / Nicasil Cylinders
Although the Nicasil-plated, all-aluminium cylinder barrels, tend to be associated with the expensive Porsche 911s, some people might be surprised to learn (see T. K. Garrett, K. Newton & W. Steeds, "The Motor Vehicle", Butterworth Heineman - on behalf of The Society of Automotive Engineers, 13th Edition, 2001, ISBN 07680-06392, page 132) that the relatively cheap Citroën Visa & Citroën LNA runabout cars, had a two-cylinder, air-cooled engine (26•8 kW @ 5500 rpm & 51•5 Nm @ 3500 rpm, CR = 9 : 1, 652 cm³ = 70 mm stroke x 77 mm bore), with finned aluminium-alloy cylinder barrels, whose bores were spray-coated with Nicasil; a ceramet containing nickel & silicon, which was originally developed for the Citroën version of the Wankel engine.
If this Nicasil-plating process, was used for these cheap Citroën cars, it makes one wonder why those from L. N. Engineering, are so expensive!?! There seems to be some confusion, about whether the ceramet (i.e. ceramic) coating is called Nicasil or Nikasil! I think L. N. Engineering, use the spelling Nikasil, but the text books and magazines to which I have referred, speak of Nicasil.
http://www.lnengineering.com/
http://www.lnengineering.com/howitsmade.html
http://www.lnengineering.com/whynickies.html
http://www.lnengineering.com/type1.html
http://www.lnengineering.com/type4.html
http://www.lnengineering.com/vendors.html
A few years ago, I read in the editorial section of a popular British motoring magazine, that the engine of a BMW car, was virtually reduced to scrap, after about 20,000 miles, as a consequence of running on petrol, which had been refined from crude oil, having a relatively high sulphur content, whose associated acidity, had eroded the Nicasil plating.
If this Nicasil-plating process, was used for these cheap Citroën cars, it makes one wonder why those from L. N. Engineering, are so expensive!?! There seems to be some confusion, about whether the ceramet (i.e. ceramic) coating is called Nicasil or Nikasil! I think L. N. Engineering, use the spelling Nikasil, but the text books and magazines to which I have referred, speak of Nicasil.
http://www.lnengineering.com/
http://www.lnengineering.com/howitsmade.html
http://www.lnengineering.com/whynickies.html
http://www.lnengineering.com/type1.html
http://www.lnengineering.com/type4.html
http://www.lnengineering.com/vendors.html
A few years ago, I read in the editorial section of a popular British motoring magazine, that the engine of a BMW car, was virtually reduced to scrap, after about 20,000 miles, as a consequence of running on petrol, which had been refined from crude oil, having a relatively high sulphur content, whose associated acidity, had eroded the Nicasil plating.