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Stan,
Glad to hear that all the work you put into your MEP-003A has paid off big time, and so soon too. My fading memory tells me that you fixed her up less than a year ago, so you didn't have long to wait for the payoff. Congratulations! :D
On the other hand, I sympathize with the tough...
A very interesting thread...
NJ_Toolnut pretty well sums it up in post #34 and IMHO he has the most relevant experience, having successfully rebuilt his MEP-003A starting with a short block. But he has not only very considerable wrenching skill but also more motivation than I would be able to...
LuckyDog,
A big THANK YOU to LuckyDog for the explanation of compression ratio and maximum measured cylinder pressure. It's been many years since I took a thermodynamics course and I never understood, until now, why the measured pressure wasn't simply atmospheric pressure * compression ratio...