I had seen a pic of these cylinders before and wondered WTF supported the the top of the cylinder. At minimum I thought it should have been o-ringed. BTW price for this conversion is approx $355 US. I'd like to find out if iron sleeves are another option...he didn't seem to know if it would help.
An O-ringed head gasket doesn't support the top of the cylinder sleeve the way you think. Only supporting the sides of the cylinder (closed deck) would do that. Iron sleeves have been discussed and the stiffness would probably help a little, but it's much more effective support to brace the sleeve against the cylinder wall. Cheaper too.
US version is here at $531. https://ebutik.nccr.se/ebr-erik-buel...ing-your-cyl-1
Those are semi-closed.
I had seen a photo, somewhere, of someone that had made an insert to make it a proper closed deck. I thought it was NCCR, but I can't find it anymore.
Last edited by LeesEBR; 03-27-2020 at 02:42 PM.
It's not the head gasket that provides support, it's the cylinder head. It does so by increasing the clamping force directly around the top of the cylinder. See below.
Misheard what he was saying about the iron sleeves. What he said is he wasn't sure if he could do his deck modification on them. US version $531?
I was thinking the same. Didn't want to say it.
He mentioned they tried to do that but after a while realized would have been less work to design a whole new cylinder.
You can see in this image, the whole deck can be closed except for these eight (?) coolant passages.
Meh. Semantics.
What it needs is sleeve support, and thats what it's getting. Some support > No support. I wouldn't be too fast to adopt the weight and complexity of overkill.