Engine builders

Tell him to go with 90.5 piston size. A noteworthy engine builder wouldn't want to build a budget 1641 or 1679 unless there wa s avery good reason. Or at least machine-in cylinders must be used (At which point it would cost the same to use 90.5mm again, resulting in very reliable 1776cc).

One good reason would be race class rules limiting cc's to these numbers.

Jan

I bought a new motor from Quality German Auto Works in CA. Very good workmanship. Mine is a 1914cc with a single dual weber, and a Kennedy

-- the Grokdoc Tom Malmevik all that groks is god

I'm not sure their the best but I have always used Demello Machine shop for all my machine and performance needs and have the highest regaurds for there work. They even sent me another head that was damaged in shipping before I could get it back to them. Thats survice.

Demello Machine shop

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In my most humble opinion, your friend would do well by looking to

How much is he willing to spend? Oh, and it ain't all about the engine. You can sink a fortune into making the chassis, suspension, brakes and tranny right.

I still do type I engines but on a very limited scale and the smallest thing I offer now is a 2165 @ 150HP. i have sold alot of my engine combinations to some other builkders and since I'm in the belief that the strong point of the TI is strictly performance oriented thats what I have followed..

I cut my teeth on the TI and built most of my business and reputation from them, but the market is so cut throat these days that I got away from it. I now do 90% TIV work and the other 10% is 356 and 911.

Got tired of people asking price in the first line of their email!

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