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What grit are you guys finishing up the cylinder walls up with for a daily driver and low to none oil consumption. Also what rings and ring Gap for mostly N/A and sometimes 100-150 shot.

Is this too advanced?;)

Originally posted by SILVERZZ28
Is this too advanced?;)

Not advanced enough. It would be "Advanced" if it concerned the theory behind different hones or something like that. You might try LT1 Tech if it's an LT1.

Basically though, the prevailing philosophy is to finish up with a "plateau hone". One recommendation I have read is to hone within .003" of the final size and finish to final dimensions with a #220 or #280 grit abrasive and follow up with half a dozen strokes of a #600 grit stone, cork, or a flexible brush or nylon bristle plateau honing tool.

If you are using some specialized exotic ring a different procedure may be in order. You doing this yourself or is a shop doing it? If the shop knows what they are doing, let them do it. Ring manufacturers may have specific reccomendations.

Rich Krause

add: discussion of "hot honing", honing with a torque plate, intake manifold, and/or bellhousing in place are other "advanced" honing topics. You may want to do a search, I think it's been discussed here fairly recently. Here's a nice piece on honing http://www.babcox.com/editorial/ar/eb110242.htm

Originally posted by rskrause
Here's a nice piece on honing http://www.babcox.com/editorial/ar/eb110242.htm

interesting addition to that sidebar down at the bottom about diamonds and man-made diamonds...........apparently at the time they wrote that article, they could only make diamonds the size of sand.............but now there is a company that has independently developed their own process and has the ability to churn out up to 2 carat flawless yellow diamonds all day that are so close to natural that it takes high-tech diamond equipment to tell the difference. whats even funnier is that it only costs them about $100 per diamond (im sure they charge much much more). their laboratory is in the same industrial complex that i work at, gemesis (http://gemesis.com/home.htm)

Originally posted by SILVERZZ28
Is this too advanced?;)

Ha, not hardly... Be happy you've got the responses you have, I doubt any of us really want to share our honing methods over the internet.

Later
Chuck

Originally posted by chucks97ss
Ha, not hardly... Be happy you've got the responses you have, I doubt any of us really want to share our honing methods over the internet.

Later
Chuck

Yes, the pros don't exactly want to give away their hard earned knowledge! But I think he is after "Honing 101", not "Advanced Honing 499".

Rich Krause

I figured that comment would stir some people....:D


I disagree with this not being advanced though. If its a big secret then some good info would be helpful guys...Thanks

My recomendation would be to ask the company that produced your rings what they recomend.

Bret