Re: Rings n' tings

[Kevin <aventari@cts.com>]

Hmm Well I used them in my buildup that finished about 6 months ago, I've
put around 6000 miles on it and the rings work fine for me. I have nothing
to compare it to, however i've had no problems. 
	Installing the rings I found that there was a lot of end gap, but I called
Total Seal and of course they said it was fine. It was at the outer edge of
specs for my motor. 

	Now that I think about what Shawn said, on my last compression test my
reading were a bit uneven.. cyl 1 and 2 were like 155psi, 3 was 140 i think
and  4 was like 160 or something. I remember they were all good, but more
uneven than i would like for a new motor.

Here's the specs I recorded building the motor. Keep in mind this was my
first time ever CC'ing anything so it's not very accurate (why i did it
twice) but id say it was + or - 2cc .

Piston ring end gap:
	 Cyl 1           Cyl 2           Cyl 3           Cyl 4
Top     .17"            .17"            .17"            .17"
2nd     .16"            .14"            .17"            .16"
oil     .23"            .14"            .22/.18"        .18"
--
CC'ing the head 
        Cyl 1           Cyl 2           Cyl 3           Cyl  4
1st CC  29cc            29cc            30cc            28cc
2nd CC  28.5cc          28.5cc          29.5cc          28.5cc


The TS rings aren't teflon or nylon coated, they are regular rings, but
they have a special 2nd ring with 3 parts that are offset so as to
eliminate the ring end gap. Works in theory, i've never seen back to back
tests though. That'd be expensive!!

At 01:29 PM 3/11/99 -0600, you wrote:
>
>
>    Hello fellow rocc'ers
> I was just wondering if anyone has used or had any experience 
>with "total seal" piston rings.  From what I've heard, they are some 
>kind of teflon/nylon coated special rings that are better than normal 
>rings for some reason(can't remember).  I had heard that they take 
>longer to seal than normal rings, but eventually seal much 
>better(better compresion?).  Is this some kind of american car hot 
>rod stuff? Worth using? 
>
>always got mo' ideas..
>  - Noah
>
>
>noah@newdimensions.com
>http://www.newdimensions.com

Kevin Fry -- computer nerd!
'81 Scirocco S 1.8l
'80 Scirocco   0.0l

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