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Bore adaptors

Posted: Mon Jul 08, 2013 11:50 am
by Sean
Hey guys, does anyone have good plans to make a bore adaptor that can have the bore sizes changed? Or a link to just buy one.
Cheers
Sean

Re: Bore adaptors

Posted: Mon Jul 08, 2013 6:39 pm
by Tony
They are pretty easy to make, and as far as I know most here seem to fabricate their own to suit a specific personal favorite engine.

Re: Bore adaptors

Posted: Mon Jul 08, 2013 7:50 pm
by coulterracn
Stumper wrote:Hey guys, does anyone have good plans to make a bore adaptor that can have the bore sizes changed? Or a link to just buy one.
Cheers
Sean
http://www.castheads.com/aluminum_flow_ ... _stand.php

Re: Bore adaptors

Posted: Mon Jul 08, 2013 9:01 pm
by Sean
Wow for those prices I will make my own lol, yeah I will just have to get buddy buddy with the local machinist I think, I have lots of different engine types to work on so I will have to make a number of adaptors, oh well add it to the list hahaha. Thanks guys

Re: Bore adaptors

Posted: Mon Jul 08, 2013 9:20 pm
by coulterracn
I've made several using cast iron cylinder sleeves and cabinet grade plywood.

Re: Bore adaptors

Posted: Mon Jul 08, 2013 10:03 pm
by Tony
You need something pretty decent to support the weight of the head, but the actual bore tube itself could be pvc pipe or thin wall stuff.

In Australia, standard PVC sewer pipe is 4 1/16" bore (103.2 mm)

Re: Bore adaptors

Posted: Mon Jul 08, 2013 10:31 pm
by Hotz
MDF with good thickness, router, PVC pipe, as Tony says glue slot PVC ... Easy. :)
Tony which the measurement system in Australia? metric or inch

Re: Bore adaptors

Posted: Mon Jul 08, 2013 11:03 pm
by Tony
We are completely metric here now, we officially converted from imperial in 1970.
But some things like pipe and pipe threads still use the original exact inch sizes rounded to metric.
For instance, 3/4 inch bore water pipe is really 19mm bore, but we call it "20mm pipe"
Four inch sewer pipe is "100 mm pipe" but it's really a bit bigger than that.
We still use the same old British BSP imperial pipe threads on our new metric water pipe.

Only place in the entire world still officially stuck in imperial is USA.

Re: Bore adaptors

Posted: Mon Jul 08, 2013 11:16 pm
by Hotz
Tony wrote:We are metric here now, but we used to be imperial a very long time ago.

Only place in the entire world still using Imperial is USA.
Here in Brasil, little things still use imperial.

thanks.

Re: Bore adaptors

Posted: Mon Jul 08, 2013 11:19 pm
by Tony
This map is pretty interesting. Image