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It is not always that you hear high performance and long life paired together, especially when referring to performance aircooled engines. It is very typical, even with high-powered cooling systems, that high-performance engines run too hot, and as you know heat kills! Even Porsche knew you could not cool over 22hp per cylinder reliably with cast iron! Higher operating temperatures result in a thermally overloaded engine that, among other things, has cylinders that fail to seal against the head and have significantly shorter life spans versus stock displacement engines. Our Nickies™ package is the culmination of every technological advance related to pistons and cylinders for your aircooled engine! LN Engineering Nickies cylinders are available from 80mm to 90mm (1883cc) and come in popular sizes including 86mm (1720 aka 1750). 9.25-9.5:1 86mm and 90mm JE Pistons are currently in stock, ready for delivery, along with Nickies cylinders or our budget Mahle cast-alloy cylinders, as described below: LN Engineering now offers Mahle cast-alloy fully aluminum nikasil cylinders in 82.5mm or 86mm for those on a budget including 8.5, 9:1, 9.25:1, or 9.5:1 JE Pistons for $1849 (including core charges) for a complete set! We also have 80mm two-piece case Mahle alloy cylinders along with 22 degree pistons in any compression ratio for the same price! Looking for more horsepower and torque on a budget? We've put together a guide on building an 1883cc Porsche 356 engine. Click here to read online or download the pdf version. Nickies™ make the difference!
Our nikasil-plated, CNC billet, solid aluminum Nickies™ provide:
We
bring “6-cylinder” performance to your
“4-cylinder” without
sacrificing reliability.
Our products have revolutionized the design of big bore street and vintage racing engines alike. Jake Raby, of Aircooled Technology, who has been the pioneer of the latest engine performance developments, says that Nickies™ are a must for any application, stock or high performance, if you are serious about real power and reliability. He has stopped entirely from using any cast iron cylinders in bore sizes larger than the original factory bore and uses only Nickies™ in applications where big bore cylinders are required.
Want a little more performance on a tight budget? We stock bored and re-plated alloy cylinders up to 86mm, fitted with our custom JE Pistons. Need your original pistons and cylinders refurbished? Need your old cast iron cylinder bored out and honed to a set of our custom JE Pistons? We do that too! Click here. Where our Nickies aren't permissible, original German cylinders are your best choice for boring out and honing or boring and re-plating. We even Nikasil cast iron for improved longevity. (see right for reconditioned cylinders) And did you know, we do pistons too? Any compression ratio, any bore size, 22 or 30 degree - one price $739. And I bet you didn't know we do rods too!
For those unfamiliar with our R&R Pro Billet Connecting Rods, click here. R&R Racing Products in conjunction with LN Engineering manufactures billet rods for all Porsche engines. Our second generation R&R Pro billet rods are now designed to take a 20mm wrist pin and along with our custom super-light JE Pistons, and are race proven by Les Long and William Noblitt, of Air Power Racing. click here to learn more about The Secrets behind Nickies™ cylinders... What pistons can you use with Nickies?
Custom JE Pistons (4 cylinder) including performance rings, wrist pins, and locks start at $739.
Our custom forged pistons are the best of their kind. They feature the low-friction slipper skirts, low weight, balancing within 1/2 a gram, and are manufactured from the superior 2618-aluminum forged alloy material when specified for use with our Nickies™ cylinders. Our pistons are designed to maintain optimal deck height for maximum quench. Good quench allows for faster burn and better thermal efficiency, leading to better gas mileage, lower potential for detonation, and more power. We design each and every set of pistons to your specifications, taking into account chamber volumes and other design characteristics. Any compresion ratio, one price! To learn more about our pistons, click here. Some manufacturers advertise their compression ratio as one figure, and you only come to find that either it's too high, requiring you to run a very large deck causing poor combustion and detonation, or too low, reducing power and efficiency. Now that is no longer the case. Let us design your custom piston for less than an off the shelf one-size fits all piston. We supply a truly custom forged piston to meet your needs or even supply cylinders to fit your existing pistons. Whatever the case, here’s the bottom line: we work with you to provide ideal pistons for your application, period.
Contact us at 815-472-2939 or info@LNengineering.com to bring your “tried and true" Aircooled engine to the new standard of precision performance!
Technical Information Machining Sizes for Big Bore Nickies™ Cylinders Porsche 356/912 thickwall 86 & 88mm Nickies™ - Case dia. 93mm; Head dia. 95.5mm Porsche 356/912 thickwall 88 & 90mm Nickies™ - Case dia. 94.5mm; Head dia. 98mm The Super
1883cc Porsche 356 / 912 1.9L Build-up To further pursue our commitment to pioneer advances on the aircooled platform, LN Engineering has teamed up with Jake Raby, of Aircooled Technology, to bring your Porsche 356 and 912 engine into the 21st century to a new level of aircooled precision performance, never before achieved with this level of performance and reliability! For those of you who aren't familiar with William Noblitt, he's a vintage racer who also builds 356/912 engines as a hobby, and does so with the dedication and passion that makes these engines and cars so great. 1800ccs doesn't limit him in the slightest, going from street to track with ease. 160 HP and 148 ft/lb of torque, with peak HP by 5500 rpm and no need to spin past 6000 rpm, there's no loss of driveability. In fact, we've never seen a torque curve so flat! Keep reading below for customer testimonials from Mr. Noblitt.
Where else can you find daily driver reliability and power without the added need for better fans, more oil coolers, or deep or dry sumps? Pictured above is the dyno output for our 1966 Porsche 912 1883cc "Super Hero" built by Aircooled technology, Jake Raby. As seen at the Hershey April 2006. 167hp @ 6000 rpm and 152+ lb/ft of torque from 4500-5500! SPECIFICATIONS: Compression 9.28:1, single plug, Neutek Sx-3 cam, LN Engineering Stage II Cylinder Heads, 44 IDFS, Scat billet crankshaft (std weight), Carrillo rods, Mallory Unilite distributor, Airflow Research aluminum oil cooler, Precision Matter full-flow oil filter pump cover, Skirmants 1 3/4 -> 1 5/8 exhaust with turbo II muffler, stock rebuilt transmission, 215mm flywheel (unlightened), stock pressure plate, ceramic puck unsprung clutch. Click here to see our photo journal documenting the entire buildup Read the blog on our 1883cc engine here!
The above 1883cc has now undergone a carb to efi conversion, performed by DTM Engineering out of Atlanta, GA, including distributorless ignition. Click here for pictures of the installation. DTM Engineering is an authorized installer of Jake Raby/Aircooled Technology engines. Shown before and after.
William Noblitt's Nickies Equipped 1800cc Race Car, new for 2007 (both above and below)
William Noblitt has also made history with his 1800cc Nickies 356 engine and is currently building a new 1883 using our R&R Pro Billet Connecting Rods, 90mm Nickies w/ ultra-light JE Pistons and 20mm wrist pins, and our newest 200CFM CNC cylinders heads! Yet the best testimonial are the numerous emails I received from an enthusiastic and proud W. Noblitt: April 10th. Charles, finished the dyno work today. Didn't spend a tremendous amount of time on the dyno but got it awfully darn close. The readouts are not direct so the data has to be put in a spread sheet to give the actual torque / horse power figures. I'll share that with you when I get the figures. Will say that Les Long from Air Power Racing who has the dyno said the figures were getting real close to what he is getting out of his race engine. Of course he is running at least 2 points higher a compression ratio with a little more than .050" additional lift at the cam and about 30 degrees more duration, a 1720 piston/cylinder set up, considerably lighter flywheel/pressure plate, etc in his all out race engine. His horse power and torque are considerably higher up the RPM range than mine due to the radical cam.
September 9th. After the dyno runs I installed it in my Convertible D and did some incidental driving and ran it in a hill climb. The hill climb was one I do every year and I didn't quite meet my expectations. I was 2 seconds faster than I had ever been before, yet it was an extremely cold day and the tires were not sticking at all or I would have easily gotten under 2:10 which has been my goal for years. Still got within tenths of seconds. William Noblitt can be contacted by email to answer any of your questions or share his experiences with the 1800cc Nickies™ kit. He is planning a larger 1883cc engine based on our 1.9L Nickies™ kit for his race car in the near future and should allow him to lead the pack by a larger lead than he already has! He can be found at the track flaunting his power and lapping the competition.
Mr. William Noblitt has gone onto many successful wins with his 1800cc. Congrats Bill! Website
last updated December 4, 2006. Contact webmaster at info@LNengineering.com
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your powerful
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May 3rd: You will be happy to
hear that I ran the engine in my Convertible D (photos
