continental engine

Does anyone in tractorland have experience on the continental engines F 124 F 140 F 162 was wondering how far the F 124 can be bored out!!!

Do you mean how much oversize a person can bore it out to??

Yes!!Thats what i mean can it be bored to 3.437 like the F 162

I believe they all use the same block so you should be able to bore it.

Your local auto machine shop can probably tell you how far it can be bored oversize. Hal

No experience with Continental engines, but probably you shouldn"t bore a block larger than necessary for the available oversize pistons you can find.

Lots of engines can be bored out quite a bit, but anytime you go real big, you risk leaving yourself with too thin of a cylinder wall, or even hitting a water jacket. Then you find another block and start over, or go through the expensive custom sleeving process.

When I was in high school, the popular modification of a 283 Chevy was to bore it out to 4", making it into a 301. Usually it worked just fine and it produced a very powerful engine (with the right heads and other parts). But sometimes it didn"t work out at all, and it was almost impossible to get and keep ring seal.

Chevrolet built a very similar engine for the 1967 Z-28 (and to comply with the Trans-Am racing rules) using a 4" bore 327 block and a 283 crank, along with the best heads, cam and induction. They called it a 302 and it was an absolute screamer. I don"t remember ever hearing about problems with those cylinder castings being too thin like they sometimes were on 301"s.

It might work to bore out the Continental engine, but modifying anything very much is taking a chance. Good luck!