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Originally Posted by bogieboy
dan, any reason why you did a piston and jug along with the cam? how much is the cam itself, i see that the whole setup was about $95 or so... which isnt bad at all...
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Must not have watched the part toward the reassembly side of things where I said I wasn't using the new cylinder. I had a new cylinder and piston on hand because I was unsure of how my rings and cylinder would look during disassembly and I am a total Boy Scout.
I may be obsessive about maintenance, but I was also a bit hard on this motor early in its life. Setting up two different carbs, and thrashing on it on the highway. I didn't want to discover deep scoring or some other sort of damage and not be prepared for it. Thankfully it just had light superficial skirt wear, no score marks in the cylinder beyond the matching skirt scuffing, of which the cross hatching was still visible through, and according to my bore gauge it was still round.
That's fine by me, because I have some ideas in my head as to what I can do with that cylinder, piston, and the old Hawk head for a different high compression ported setup.
I am actually going to start on that head here shortly just as something to do on the side.