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Hi all.

I’ve got an ‘83 911SC with broken head studs. I bought Wayne Dempsey’s book on rebuilding 911 motors. In it, it suggests that alumasil cylinders can be saved on low mileage cars during a “rebuild” if you pull the wristpins and remove the pistons and cylinders as one unit. I’ve done this with success except for the #5 cylinder. Without going into detail, I managed to break the oil ring on that piston. I’ve heard chatter both ways. It’s impossible to rering alumasil cylinders, or that it can be done, but there isn’t a 100% success rate. I was really hoping to avoid dropping the $4k on new cylinders and pistons in this 85k motor.

How boned am I?

Thanks, Matt