Thanks for that exhaustive description of the VW head problem.It did help explain a lot of the issues dealt with last year with my gpas heads.I do still think Steve sold good products and his insight was second to none.Miss him.The cracks between the heads gave me a lot of anxiety.I was sure they needed replacement.A thousand bucks was more than my retirement pension could afford,so I did the only thing I could.Cleaned them up,inspected,ground the valves,lapped the seats,and reassembled with the knowledge that I would not let anyone else operate my plane but me.Needless to say,I was shocked to find out the engine has good compression,runs better than it ever has,and will haul my dumba-s to the next gathering.Tommy W.
On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 8:01 AM, n357cj via KRnet <[email protected]> wrote: > Mark, > I think that Larry has a worn out 0-200 he may want to part with.... ;-) > Joe > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "KRnet" <[email protected]> > To: "KRnet" <[email protected]> > Cc: "Mark Langford" <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, April 28, 2017 8:05:08 AM > Subject: KR> VW Type 1 "DRD Racing" head reliability > > Those of you with any kind of short term memory remaining will recall > that I took a serious look at Type 1 head cooling last year, in an > effort to find some heads that had sufficient air passages to keep the > VW Type 1 heads cool in a KR2. I settled on DRD Racing heads, which > have some very generous air passages, and should cool much better than > my previous heads. At the end of that article I said I'd let you know > how it worked out, but it has NOT been a smashing success. See the > "UPDATE" about halfway down the page at http://www.n56ml.com/n891jf/vw/ > for more... > -- > Mark Langford > [email protected] > http://www.n56ml.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Search the KRnet Archives at https://www.mail-archive.com/ > [email protected]/. > Please see LIST RULES and KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html. > see http://list.krnet.org/mailman/listinfo/krnet_list.krnet.org to change > options. > To UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > Search the KRnet Archives at https://www.mail-archive.com/ > [email protected]/. > Please see LIST RULES and KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html. > see http://list.krnet.org/mailman/listinfo/krnet_list.krnet.org to change > options. > To UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to [email protected] > _______________________________________________ Search the KRnet Archives at https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. Please see LIST RULES and KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html. see http://list.krnet.org/mailman/listinfo/krnet_list.krnet.org to change options. To UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to [email protected]
