107mm Nickies! Pushing the MAX!
Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2006 7:32 am
And all for an engine that will be at least 3.1L... Cylinders will use the stock stud pattern of the TIV!!!!
A few weeks ago I had a customer request the "biggest engine we would build"....
He is a great guy thats very easy to work with and was willing to take the risks involved. He currently has two RAT engines being built, the other is a 2615 for his Beck Speedster so I figured "what the hell, I'm gonna hook this guy up.."
So then I started the planning, ordered some parts that take a while to get (6 months) and called Charles to give him the good news that insanity was on the rise and we needed to up the ante!
Yesterday he finished the design of the new cylinder on paper and they'll be spit out of the CNC in the next week or so as the biggest Nickies to date and definately the biggest we can do to a TIV that retains the stock bore spacing and stud pattern. The way we are making this happen is requiring some machine work, welding and "tricks"...
Based on the excellent results we have attained with the 105.07mm Nickies I feel confident that these babies will be just as perfect! The piston being used is 4.210 (damn near a 4-1/4" bore) and is in the design stages now as far as it's forging and etc is concerned.
This engine will more than likely end up at 88 stroke with a roller cam and the set of Engine Plus heads that I bought from Alex to test against my Billet heads.. But many things are still up in the air at this point including the heads, but since this engine is not due for 16 more months we have plenty of time to do more developments to apply into it's composition.
We'll be posting about this one as it evolves for sure!
BTW- The customer doesn't have a vehicle to put the engine into yet, I'd love to see it go into either a bad ass German Looker, OR a very authentic Cal Looker and that would be just to piss people off!
A few weeks ago I had a customer request the "biggest engine we would build"....
He is a great guy thats very easy to work with and was willing to take the risks involved. He currently has two RAT engines being built, the other is a 2615 for his Beck Speedster so I figured "what the hell, I'm gonna hook this guy up.."
So then I started the planning, ordered some parts that take a while to get (6 months) and called Charles to give him the good news that insanity was on the rise and we needed to up the ante!
Yesterday he finished the design of the new cylinder on paper and they'll be spit out of the CNC in the next week or so as the biggest Nickies to date and definately the biggest we can do to a TIV that retains the stock bore spacing and stud pattern. The way we are making this happen is requiring some machine work, welding and "tricks"...
Based on the excellent results we have attained with the 105.07mm Nickies I feel confident that these babies will be just as perfect! The piston being used is 4.210 (damn near a 4-1/4" bore) and is in the design stages now as far as it's forging and etc is concerned.
This engine will more than likely end up at 88 stroke with a roller cam and the set of Engine Plus heads that I bought from Alex to test against my Billet heads.. But many things are still up in the air at this point including the heads, but since this engine is not due for 16 more months we have plenty of time to do more developments to apply into it's composition.
We'll be posting about this one as it evolves for sure!
BTW- The customer doesn't have a vehicle to put the engine into yet, I'd love to see it go into either a bad ass German Looker, OR a very authentic Cal Looker and that would be just to piss people off!