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Chris Bacon wrote:
And some engines use particular materials or surface processes that
make rebores and regrinds effectively impossible (even if you could
get the appropriately sized bearings and pistons)

What? Nikasil? When was that invented, WWII? The '60s?

Think I first heard of it in the early '70s on a motorbike engine.

Incidentally, I've got a Nikasil block BMW. It's fine. ;-)

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