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What is the engine life of modded motors and what parts are usually the first to detonate(fail)? was thinking of possibly working the heads on my 27hp kohler.


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Shorter than stock

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My recent research for my 27 Kohler has revealed that will head work, carb swap, exhaust and an UN-TOUCHED governor that the Kohler would be a very reliable motor. Internal mods and an increase in compresson will equal a shorter life span.

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Question- What mods (or combination of) typically cause the compression to increase to a point that you are sacrificing the longevity of your motor? Just curious what some of the guys would say that have pushed these motors to their limits and beyond.


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my stage 3 is on it's 3rd rebuild in under 100 hours. decking the heads and cam work with flat top pistons all increase compression. I was running 225 psi
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While it ran it ran great. Firsts rebuild a evt cam failed with in 2 hours, second rebuild due to fact the "boat Dr" did not want to do a complete tear down when replacing the first cam, third rebuild the fuel mixture leaned out due to a leak in the fuel primer bulb (my best guess).

I bought a spare stock 35 twin to run while the bomb is waiting to be rebuilt.

I am going back stock pistons 9 if possible), and having a thicker head gasket made to bring compression under 190.

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I had almost 80 hrs on stage 1 with no big problems only a leaking case gasket which alot of stock motors do. Stage 2 lasted UM 10 hrs......its fun while it last but mark my words a few years from now we will have reliable madded motors wunning 35+ that last 100's of hours.

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[quote="craig"][quote="JD"]my stage 3 is on it's 3rd rebuild in under 100 hours. decking the heads and cam work with flat top pistons all increase compression. I was running 225 psi
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While it ran it ran great. Firsts rebuild a evt cam failed with in 2 hours, second rebuild due to fact the "boat Dr" did not want to do a complete tear down when replacing the first cam, third rebuild the fuel mixture leaned out due to a leak in the fuel primer bulb (my best guess).
I bought a spare stock 35 twin to run while the bomb is waiting to be rebuilt.



I don't know for sure. In outboards a leaking fuel line can cause a loss of top end. The jetting was set up with out a leak and a consistent fuel pressure and set barely rich, a intermittent leak could cause a low fuel level in the bowel and loss of a fuel to the main jets. It was running fine at wot them it would miss and stumble a few times then kill, it would restart with out problems . It was acting like a water or dirt in the fuel bowel. It did it even in my drive way. The miss and stumble was detention.

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If that was the case every engine that runs out of gas would burn up. If you was detonatin' you had other problems such as low octane level.

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Stock timing, cam looks new, I had 10 gals of 91 octane in the tank and added 5 of regular. Compression was 225 on each side. I had just made a plate to mount the mikuni like they do on Harley's, It did not act like it had any vacuum leaks. The fuel line would only leak when it was moved .
I don't think I ever know what happened.

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