I have seen MANY threads on many boards about this topic...I didn't do a search on here but I'm sure this has been covered before but with new blood always coming on board (me included), perhaps we could cover it again.
I have rebuilt sleds, bikes, quads and all sorts of stuff...
I see alot of people on here saying, "run X tanks of gas through it and it will seat the rings". On the sawing I have done (not much, shamefully), a couple of tanks of gas will last quite a while in my 361.
Some of my experience with rings seating in a new cylinder are as follows:
Quad (Honda TRX 450R, NiSil cylinder, nitride rings, liquid cooled) literally like less than 5 minutes run time at slightly lower rpm than saws (6-10K range). 4 stroke.
Sled (Arctic Cat ZR 600, Suzuki twin cylinder, NiSil cylinder, ducticle rings?, liquid cooled) around 10 minutes tops.
I have done MANY ATV engines with both cast iron bores and NiSil and it has rarely been longer than 10 minutes.
Any thoughts?
I have rebuilt sleds, bikes, quads and all sorts of stuff...
I see alot of people on here saying, "run X tanks of gas through it and it will seat the rings". On the sawing I have done (not much, shamefully), a couple of tanks of gas will last quite a while in my 361.
Some of my experience with rings seating in a new cylinder are as follows:
Quad (Honda TRX 450R, NiSil cylinder, nitride rings, liquid cooled) literally like less than 5 minutes run time at slightly lower rpm than saws (6-10K range). 4 stroke.
Sled (Arctic Cat ZR 600, Suzuki twin cylinder, NiSil cylinder, ducticle rings?, liquid cooled) around 10 minutes tops.
I have done MANY ATV engines with both cast iron bores and NiSil and it has rarely been longer than 10 minutes.
Any thoughts?