EMPI 88mm Birals

[fish]

Hi all, has anyone used the Empi Aluminium fin 88A machine-in full skirt P/B kit with any degree of success?

Thinking of using a set for my Resto-Cal 66' in a industrial 1300TP case, K7, Magnums, 1.5 Erson rockers, Cro-mo pushrods, semi-hemi heads, 36idf, etc etc.

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cheers

[deano]

This goes way back, but years ago, Greg Aronson drove a 356 Cabo around town, and it was an 82x88 killer with slipper skirt pistons with an Engle 125, and the first dual muffler setup! Well, the slipper skirts did not fair to well on the street for oil control, so he replaced the pistons with full skirt Empi 88s, but retained the biral aluminum cylinders. Better. But then he went the other way to tame that beast down and took off the 48 IDAs, and stuck on some 40DCNFs, and finally, a stock weight flywheel.

[Zach Gomulka]

I think in the How To Hot Rod VW Engines book it says that the rings on the slipper skirts are too narrow... better suited for a race engine. Being that yours are full round skirts, you shouldn't have any issues- but I would use larger carbs I'm going to give the slippers a try... someday. 88x82

[nicolas]

I think in the How To Hot Rod VW Engines book it says that the rings on the slipper skirts are too narrow... better suited for a race engine. Being that yours are full round skirts, you shouldn't have any issues- but I would use larger carbs I'm going to give the slippers a try... someday. 88x82

OR you can leave all the hard descisions to me and ship them to Belgium.


 

[fish]

I've always wanted to build a mouse motor aka JP, maybe there's a chance of using the kit for that, a wilder cam and some 48IDA, vertex mag, 10lb flywheel, old skool baby.

Car is currently getting narrowed front end, AMS disk brake kit and Empi 5 spokes. Going for period Cal-Resto.

Biral kit came with some Nostalgia single port heads, semi-hemi with slight port work. Anyone interested?