Totally. Just thinking that raising or widening ports can get rid of plating damage and change a ruined cylinder to gold. If it’s on the side you’ll just have to go by skirt width and bore. Post up some pics and numbers. Hopefully if we keep this on top someone will show up with info.
Nah, just need to rplace bearings at some point. Thanks you.
Those are pretty good numbers. No wonder 143 is legendary. Is that without a base gasket?
You definitely could. But just about everything could be adjusted a touch. A little higher exhaust and transfer, lower intake and tighter squish. It’s 10 times the work, but it probably would make more power and speed that old saw up. Hard to mess with a good thing though.
Yes no base gasket. It is a used cylinder that has a couple imperfections that's why I don't really want to pay someone to machine it. I need to see how much would need to come off the piston to get the intake a little lower and not make it free port. I am not sure how much less squish I would want can barely pull these old dolmars over with the compression they have now
