Fast Eddie
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Which are you using ?
Andover Norton Replacement 750 Cylinder Barrels
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Iron liners ones. I started considering Nikasil ones as I want firstly to reduce the weight of the bike, but was reluctant to be among the firts users because of discussions pending about pros and cons, quality of plating etc.
Foundry and machining are excellent. I first planned to paint them in black as are the current ones but will leave them as shown on Andy's site.
Sounds like OP has solved his problem. Just to add some information to this thread, I raced a 66.5 (2.5 mm over bored) RD400 engine in AHRMA Formula 500 for 10 years that I eventually had Millenium plate with nicasil to preserve the bores and it worked extremely well— they are perhaps the only place I’d go for nicasil on iron liners. This is tricky stuff and I wouldn’t go anywhere else. Millennium nicasil coats a ton of cylinders, mostly aluminum but iron too, they are one of the best around at this. The nicasil can be plated up to size within limits and can fill scratches and gouges— I’d get in touch with them for the particulars. I definitely would not recommend plating in nickel or using a plating shop that doesn’t do a lot of this, nickel is completely different than nicasil, which is the standard in the cylinder plating world, both on OEM cylinders and replating. But, the OP has bought a replacement cylinder so no worries for him.
