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Originally Posted by 78w72
I asked this before regarding moving pistons but must have been overlooked... wont moving pistons to different cylinders after the engine has been broken in & ran for awhile cause problems with rings sealing? Or do you keep the rings in the same cylinder swapping them to the other pistons? Never heard of swapping pistons/rings to a different cylinder after break in.
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The correct way is hone the cylinders, break the glaze, install new rings. Then swap the pistons.
On a good engine that has a good ring seal you could just swap them bank too bank, and do nothing and most of the time it will be ok. Engine masters did that and had the same dyno results back to back. But on a seasoned engine, your better off deglazing and rering.
I would imagine Cliff honed his 400 SBC out and installed new rings when he swapped his pistons.
I didn’t read what is all going on I guess, sounds like there is some ghost noise that is yet to be tracked down was the reason this was apart???? Good luck