Hello
I'm looking to get a set of totalseal gapless top rings - have a set on my 600hp MR2 turbo, but I need to know the ring dimensions on the standard pistons?
If anyone knows that would be great - otherwise I'll measure them with a micrometer when I strip the engine!
Ring dimensions required
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Timmo
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hi mark,
i think you may have the wrong forum here as we are the Citroen Bx 16Valve forum,
one of our members did have an mr2 but i dont think he stripped it to know the ring sizes,
sorry about that fella!
i think you may have the wrong forum here as we are the Citroen Bx 16Valve forum,
one of our members did have an mr2 but i dont think he stripped it to know the ring sizes,
sorry about that fella!
Timmo 
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After all i am the Cornish one!
Its Because its French!
Bx16v club - Sharing the love for the unloved!
Have you had a look on the Citroen parts website (service.citroen.com), i suspect that is the sort of random information you might just find there. Though i would be surprised if Mandic didn't know.
Would you measure from a new ring? Presumeably a used ring would be worn and out of perfect tollerance? How is a such a ring fitted? I'm not an engine man myself but i can see the benefits to be had.
Would you measure from a new ring? Presumeably a used ring would be worn and out of perfect tollerance? How is a such a ring fitted? I'm not an engine man myself but i can see the benefits to be had.
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docchevron1472
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Couldn't give the dimensions off the top of my head TBH, not something I've ever checked.
There's a few types of gapless ring Vanny, some are "overlap" rings with steps in the end of the ring that, er, overlap when fitted to the piston, some I've seen are a bit like tongue and groove, interlock type things, and the coolest ones I've seen, and fitted on the ambulance, were a bit like a big slinky!
You just wound the whole thing like a spring over a thread, cant remember who made them now, but they really were cool!
There's a few types of gapless ring Vanny, some are "overlap" rings with steps in the end of the ring that, er, overlap when fitted to the piston, some I've seen are a bit like tongue and groove, interlock type things, and the coolest ones I've seen, and fitted on the ambulance, were a bit like a big slinky!
You just wound the whole thing like a spring over a thread, cant remember who made them now, but they really were cool!
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1989 BX TD hybrid
1971 BL 350FG Ambulance (unique)
1993 Dennis Lance 132
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