Piston Cutaway

The short cutaway was done to help stop skirt collapsing. The higher cutaway stock pistons used to collapse the skirts fairly regularly and in half the time of the low cutaway.

As far as how much cutaway is needed in the cylinder/piston, when the piston is at BDC, the cut away for the transfers in the cylinder shouldn't protrude past the cutaway in the piston.

The respected rule of thumb is that if the sleeve is lower than the cut in the piston with the piston at BDC, then cut the sleeve, IF there is sufficient sleeve to not cause strength weakening issues. On early type sleeves, the area of the cut between the rear of the rear transfer cut and the center transfer port divider should not be completely cut, but massaged for an angle cut, more sleeve retained at the rear. This would give the somewhat added strength you mentioned.

Second part is if the piston cut is lower than the sleeve cut, radius/polish the cut in the piston and let it alone.

Me, I like the aluminum sleeve with Nic-A-Syl coatings more than a cast iron or steel sleeve.

Even if the metals are forged, if they don't have support, they go into plastic elongation (they bend, and stay bent).

One of the things the factory was trying to accomplish with the shallow transfer openings on both the cylinders and pistons was to tame the beast down a bit. Longer chassis, lower power levels = cushy riding.

I said that if a person wanted to ride an arm chair, let 'em get a Z1, if they wanted to ride a fun bike, get an early H2. Factory didn't listen, to ANY of us back then.

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