No Stroker kit for me

The delay in production of Thumper Racing's stroker kit has given me plenty of time to consider whether or not I want to go to all of the trouble to install it, and after said consideration, I have decided to skip it. Splitting the cases exponentially increases the amount of difficulties I would encounter, so I'm not doing it.

Instead of the crank that I would have gotten, Travis has agreed to send me one of his 83mm 3-ring pistons instead. Since I have to tear down the top end to replace the leaky head and base gaskets anyway, I might as well replace the questionable Athena 2-ring piston with TR's lighter & tighter item.

The gaskets are here, just waiting for the piston to arrive. I haven't started the WR/X since late December. It will be nice to have it on the road again.

Awww. Now someone else has to be the guinea pig.

I'd love to do it, but I'm not sure I can bring myself to spend $1200...

Stay tuned for the fully ported head!

Hoping you can get some nice pictures of old and new pistons as well as some of the work you have to do.

BuilderBob wrote:

Stay tuned for the fully ported head!

I'd be interested to see a before and after dyno. I'm curious of the valves/cam are going to be a significant limitation or not.

Hell, I don't even know if there is room for oversize valves.