<VV> It's Alive - 1966 500

[Geoffrey Johnson]

To answer a few more questions:

The valve faces did not end up getting coated.   I had done the heads  a 
while 
back for a stalled project.   Was going to do the valves and large exhaust 
tubes, but ended up going another direction.   So just the piston faces 
and the combustion chambers.   I did the coating myself with a airbrush 
and coating from techline coatings.
The engine was a 95, and the heads are 110's.   It still retains the 889 
cam.   My hope is with the very thorough deflashing and coating it will 
not ping with the bumped compression.    If it does not work, a head swap 
is not a big deal.   It pulls very hard now and I like the way it runs.

I have asked alot around the vair communtiy for other results with the 
ceramic coatings, and know people have used them.  I am eager to see if 
there is a noticeable difference.   Would have been nice 
to do it on a car that was running and instrumented.   This car ran and 
drove, but the blowby was astounding.   I tore it down hoping to do a 
quick ring job.   But there were cracked rigns and scored cylinder walls. 
Where the rings had cracked and jammed in the horribly worn lands, 
aluminum had started eroding away.   So everything got replaced.

Also thanks for the compliments on time- It was supposed to be a weekend 
job, but 
having found all the problems it was stretched out timewise.   I was 
getting pressured to finish as I did the work at my friends shop and he 
wanted the space back and the mess cleaned up!


-Geoff Johnson




> Any ceramic on the valve faces?