Actually it would make a lot of sense. We might have a better chance of
getting good bearings and they might up the horsepower by a fair amount.
Bearings that are wider than they need to be are a needless HP drain. The
plain bearings on a 160HP Honda motor are probably half the width of a TR3/4
motor.
But it would be some very experimental engineering, and likely to create a
bunch of new and unexpected problems.
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-fot@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-fot@autox.team.net] On Behalf
Of Larry Young
Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 6:04 PM
To: Richard Taylor
Cc: 'BOB KRAMER'; 'Jack W. Drews'; FOT@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Moldex crank
I too am having a hard time dealing with the economic pain of Moldex
crank and Carillo rods for something around $3000. I'm told that
Triumph rods are unusual (and therefore expensive) because they have a
very wide bearing journal. Would it be crazy to have a Moldex crank
made with narrow rod journals, so that some sort of commodity (i.e.
cheap - Honda, whatever) rod could be used?
Larry Young
Richard Taylor wrote:
>1. If one "does" a Moldex crank, is one then obliged to then cough up the
>resources for Carrillo rods...and then go for some sort of special
>pistons?
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