Oil squirters. Required, or dead weight?

[calimus@techography.net (Calimus)]

As best I know, the whole purpose of the squirters was for high RPM running.
However, I'm not sure that they would continue to do much good since they
are ment and I would guess positioned for the stock 16v pistons.  So would
they even be doing their job effeciently with the larger pistons in?  My
guess is that they would help reguardless but heres a thought.  Is there any
way to move them out of the way of the piston and keep them somewhat
functional.  I really don't know since I have only seen them once and I
didn't look close enough to tell how they are in there.  I know they don't
live in the 8v blocks so I guess you could run without them.

William
----- Original Message -----
From: <joshhignight@techography.net>
To: "Scirocco List" <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 20, 2002 8:49 PM
Subject: Oil squirters. Required, or dead weight?


   I am in the middle of a dilemna. My beasty block has been cursed with
problem after problem. First, I find the pistons are facing the wrong
direction (it's a 16v, relief cuts for intake valves were installed facing
the exhuast valves). Open bottom end, rods are on backwards too (bumps on
rods are not facing cambelt side of block, going against Bentley note). Pull
rod caps, crank, rotate pistons and rods, reassemble. Turn crank... thunk
(contact). Searching reveals that the oil squirts are contacting the now
correctly installed rods.

So, do I pull the oil squirters and just live with it? Do I go through the
hassle of not having my car for how many more weeks to have things corrected
(the shop is not local, by 900 miles)? If the block will have no adverse
effects from not having the squirters installed, I'll run it like that. I
plan to hit 8K rpm with it and it's running 83mm forged pistons and 2L crank
and rods (was a stock 1.8 16v block).

Any and all input are welcome.

Joshua


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