| that person at the shop is a moron, and tell him that. it would work to get it resleeved but the ports on the sleeve would be smaller than those in the cylinder, so they will have to make them bigger, and they will charge you to do that. also a bike that is sleeved will run hotter because it is thicker than nikasil plating, and its not as porus as nikasil so it wont hold as much oil so it will run hotter also. and we all know that hotter temps make engines run more inefficently and make your tolerances looser to make up for the extra expansion of parts due to heat=fail. Getting it plated is the same thing at getting it nickleplated, or nikasil. getting it plated means that the person that does it will bore out the old plating, and if there are gouges that are deeper that the plating they will weld them, then they will bore it out to make it nice and smooth. then they will use a process, i dont know what it is, so put a very thin lining of nikasil onto the cylinder walls. and the only time you need to get it replated is if there are scratches in it, or if it is worn through, which will happen about every 4 years with alot of hard riding, im talking like 2 hours 5 days a week.
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