Thanks for the feedback. Besides Dynosty, what other machines shops would you trust to do the Darton sleeves?

 

rut roe........Cass(Chris)...sound like someone who built your motor.

 

My engine failure was bought from a guy in the Mid-A maybe a cursed region for VQs

 

No ****... I am more scurrd of getting forged internals than I am running TT@12psi on a stock block around here..LOL

 

Imho, one based purely off of speculation sleeves are a bad idea. They aren't fully endorsed in the SR community, not really endorsed in the KA community etc. Simply put there will never be a foolproof method of attaching a premade sleeve into a pre-existing sleeve.
What is a good solution, or appears to be, is sleeve coatings. Nickies have huge success in porsche engines, and a similar application is in the vr38 cylinder walls. There are a few high hp stock internal s2ks out there; the factory setup has a coating that protects the walls. I'm really surprised that more people don't do it, considering the serious amount of bank people put into a build. This thread directly talks about the fact that just because something has big $ next to it, doesn't mean its the best. Nickies work, they dont slip, they dont cause head lift and they've been used on tons of engines. Yes the price is very high, but I can't see anything that would work better. If I could have my engine built any way, I'd have one of their cylinder liners done, and then a possible custom semi closed deck mod done.
My 2c....

 

And yet he kept choosing them over and over and over again...

 

I don't think Chris's block(s) were sleeved. But the point stands, it seems a gamble with built VQ's by many 'popular' builders.

 

Chris's block wasnt sleeved but it seems awful funny that Justice engines are failing left and right.