I've gone through the story about the big bore kit... it seized once on the way home from the mechanic, never seized again, but it now has low compression, and this past week I took it apart and found a bad piston ring. I didn't run premix, just tried to rig the oil pump to full open, and I discovered that the chicken wire had come undone. Don't know if it happened recently to actually cause lost compression or what.
It does seem like it'd be cheaper to get the big bore kit than to get parts from the dealer. I would need a new head though, because the old one was shaved by my mechanic to get just a little more out of the kit. The cylinder was also ported.
If I get another one, don't port it, use a stock head, and run premix, do you think I can expect more than 500 miles out of it like my first kit?
Thanks,
Nate
Posted on Apr 12, 2004, 4:26 AM from IP address 128.253.199.115
