Aerovee Turbo Woes...again x 3

[markschaible]

Folks,

The AeroVee uses thick-walled 92mm cylinders that require machining the case and heads. As always, be wary of information disseminated on the internet.

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[rizzz]

He strongly recommended moving to a matched / forged 90.5mm bore as it doesn't require new heads or block. It increases wall thickness, helps with torque, and significantly improved cooling, which should result is much longer head life. The 375-400 degree + temps on climbs are putting too much stress on the heads between 1 and 3.

Sounds like this is not an option:

The AeroVee uses thick-walled 92mm cylinders that require machining the case and heads.

90.5's would not fit the case/heads nor would it make sense since the wall thickness concern is no concern.
I found this info on the VW forums regarding the different wall thicknesses for the different cylinder sizes:

.179" = 92mm thickwall
.177" = 88mm machine-in
.163" = 85.5mm
.148" = 90.5mm
.140" = 94mm
.118" = 92mm thinwall

Looks like the 92 thickwalls are actually the thickest you an get.

[Gasdoc]

Very interesting. Could you post the part number for the substituted filter you used.
Thanx