Gilardoni cylinder? What does that mean?

Is that a good thing or what? New to these things. Just trying to learn.

I have a friend who swears that Gilardoni is the premier maker of piston and cylinders. As I understand it they are an Italian maker and are known for high performance engine componants. I am not making this claim only repeating what I was told.

I think I just bought a cylinder from Gilardoni, I have a thread here called cylinder ID.
I will disect it good wnen it gets here.

Well it seems funny my 60cc cylinder on my poulan 3750 is a Gilardoni from the factory.

E-lux is owns Poulan, makes some models in McCullochs factory in Italy, it makes sense to me.
But it does not make sence that E-lux claim to only use Mahle cylinders and pistons.

I found this about Gilardoni:
Based in the Lake Como area of Northern Italy, Dott. Vittorio Gilardoni SPA specialises in the manufacture of aluminium cylinder heads and barrels for motor cycle and other small engines.
Other info found shows them as an OE suppier to quite a few makers

My Efco has a Gilardoni top end. STRONG saw.

This kind of surpriced me. I just took off a Gilardoni cylinder from a HVA 42.
How about that.

The Gilardoni parts that are made for Poolan are probably made of styrofoam by Pakistani child labor. The Gilardoni parts on the Husky 42 were probably made from some relatively cheap aluminum alloy by mexican labor.

But Stihl parts are crafted by little dwarves in caves located in the alps and are forged from the finest iron ore.

"Stihl parts are crafted by little dwarves in caves located in the alps and are forged from the finest iron ore."



"One saw to rule them all, one saw to grind them;
One saw to breach them all and with sawdust blind them..."

Ok, I'm not the poet Tolkien was.

I would like a saw made from mithril though...

To cheap lol

bvaught said:

The Gilardoni parts that are made for Poolan are probably made of styrofoam by Pakistani child labor. The Gilardoni parts on the Husky 42 were probably made from some relatively cheap aluminum alloy by mexican labor.

But Stihl parts are crafted by little dwarves in caves located in the alps and are forged from the finest iron ore.

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Stihl is just to cheap to use Gilardoni cylinders, it would cut into their profits. Just adding gas to the flames lol.

Gilardoni made the cylinders for Moto Guzzi...

you guys say they are good, but all the gilardoni cylinders I've seen on the husky 50 series are a weak casting. The nikasil or chrome doesn't seem to hold up as well as the Mahle counterparts.

I have cleaned up scored mahle cylinders on these saws, but every gilardoni was trashed beyond repair.

Take it for what it is worth, just my experience

-Steve

Gilardoni is the spin-off of what used to be Moto Guzzi's nikasil plating facility in Mandello del Lario. It was originally set up to plate cylinder bores for the then-new small block (350-500cc) engines, which were then sent to Milan for final assembly.

If memory serves they became an independent entity about 10 or 15 years ago, but I could be confusing them with any number of formerly in-house services that Guzzi jettisoned over the years.

(This happened with some frequency, as Guzzi - dropping from being the world's second-largest motorcycle maker to near bankruptcy - struggled to survive.)

-=[ Grant ]=-

During the war Italy made equipment that equaled anything the Germans were producing.

They now make automobiles...examples..Lamborghini, Ferrari and Maserati.

They cast for all of them?

Sierraazul said:

During the war Italy made equipment that equaled anything the Germans were producing.

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They now make automobiles...examples..Lamborghini, Ferrari and Maserati.

Sorry guy, I am really slow tonight. Or in the words of Homer Dooh!!!

..no problem...it happens to all of us...many times I have to go back an reread what I just read.... in my case..some of it due to old age ...hahaha