I thought about it, but another set of pistons and another set of rings and then another balance job, plus waiting for the pistons to be custom made, (these are ?one off? slugs that were custom made for me) just seemed like more than I wanted to go through. Boring is going for $100.00 a hole. Rings and pistons would be another $300.00 and another $100.00 to balance it again and I?ll have spent more than what the sleeve job costs.
I should be picking up the block later this week and as soon as the weather breaks and it cools off some, I?ll be back on the engine stand and putting things together!
Tom, don't forget that with inlines, once the crank is balanced, it won't affect the balance if you change pistons. The rods are balanced separately as are the pistons. As long as the 4 pistons themselves all weigh within a few grams of each other, you won't have to do anything. As closely matched to weight as this new stuff is out of the box you wouldn't have to do anything balance related....
