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Originally Posted by Wonderboy
I talked to my father (pretty knowledgeable guy) about reusing the rings, and he was against it because the new rings have a noticeably stronger spring force when compressed than the old ones... according to him this is more important than the gap being spec. I really don't know either way as I'm new to this. I have no way of knowing and weighing the dis/advantages of having a new strong ring vs. an old gapless ring that still has a spec. gap. One thought is that it would be really interesting for one of us to use the old, and one use the new and dyno both of them right after break-in...just a wild possibility.
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I can't feel much difference between my old rings and the new NPR rings. Dyno time is way out of my budget, but I'll do a compression check no matter what rings I end up using.