Can someone spare some info on these for me? I've been doing a lot of research on the history and durability of these blocks. My unique situation is I can pick up a teksid block with cobra crank, rods, and pistons for literally no money out of pocket. He says one cylinder needs a resleeve. I was thinking about using it in an 03 cobra build. Its a 99
Teksid block????
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Great aluminum block but needs to be resleeved? Keep the forged crank and I would go Forged internals.....
My brothers going teksid on his 03. What he said get good internals, also resleeving isn't bad and can be done by any decent machine shop.
Exactly what I was thinking so far.. Keep the crank and throw in some nice rods, pistons, bearings. I was going to have 03/04 heads ported along with intake and throttle body. stage three cams and bolt a twin screw on top of it all and go racin!
that cylinder is scored so bad it can't even be cleaned up with a .030 bore?
Is it cheaper to sleeve one cylinder rather than bore them all out to .30 over ?
If the block is serviceable, the shop would need the correct torque plates to correctly machine the block...not every shop has the plates.
MMR loans the plates for a fee...they actually have a link somewhere in SVTP...
This comes up every few months to years......I can never remember the whole story...but here we GO.........
The 03/04 heads will bolt to the 99 Teksid BUT not sure if they bolt perfectly? I believe some slight difference in the openings????
Anyway...maybe someone with more knowledge can weigh in.....03/04 heads are doable BUT I personally wouldn't spend the money for 03/04 heads if you have good 99 heads....
03 heads will bolt up fine to a Teksid. I had them on a resleeved teksid. The difference is with the 05+ blocks.
Cheaper to bore versus price of sleeve and labor, also if one cylinder is scored my guess is the other 7 aren't gonna be OK to just keep the standard bore...
Did you have a blower or upgraded cams? How did you like the teksid/termiheads? Seems like you've already taken a similar road I'm wanting to take
Won't the block need .30 over sleeves? Sorry im not very knowledgeable on aluminum blocks. Just figured they all have iron sleeves. In the process of learning something new everyday
The block can be bored up to .030 without resleeving it.
If the cylinder needs to get bored out more than that you need to have a need sleeve pressed in on that cylinder as the liner will be to thin. ALL cylinders should be bored to the same size! You dont want jus one cylinder bored out .030 and the rest stock as far as I know.
If the cylinder needs to get bored out more than that you need to have a need sleeve pressed in on that cylinder as the liner will be to thin. ALL cylinders should be bored to the same size! You dont want jus one cylinder bored out .030 and the rest stock as far as I know.
My block was resleeved to be a big bore set up. I had 03 heads, Ford GT cams, and a D1. That combo never made it to the dyno though. There were issues with the machining at some point and there were 4 cracks in two of the cylinders. I didn't find those until the second set of pistons were ordered. I ended up going with an iron Boss block. I liked it with my centri. I still have the shortblock in the garage. I might use it again someday.
.020 over is more common and there's lots of pistons available with this bore. My Cylinder #7 got pretty scored but a .020 bore cleaned it up fine, that's what I'd recommend! FYI I used to know a Modular builder years ago that would bore the oem sleeves .060 over.. DON'T recommend that you'll need custom pistons to boot..
Is going big bore a bad idea? Or was your experience a matter of someone screwing something up? What I mean is, are the sleeves and pistons available for a big bore low quality or was it a matter of the person doing the machine work not the best guy for the job?
Eventually, I want to go big bore but I want to avoid any mickey mouse products.
Livernois can resleeve the block and machine to big bore specs. Check out their web page.
http://www.livernoismotorsports.com/machine-shop-services
http://www.livernoismotorsports.com/machine-shop-services
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