Re: "Honing rings"

[need2fish]

Perhaps someone out there with extra time on their hands (!) could do an empirical test:

1) Teardown/cylinder hone/reassemble/wet compression test, then repeat after scuffing the rings.
or 2) Teardown/cylinder hone/scuff rings on one cylinder/reassemble/wet compression test.

This is not a definitive test as it pre-ring seating, but will define if the start point of scuffing the rings results in higher compression.

After the rings have seated, who knows.

K

P.S. if done on a 4-cyl, the test could include swapping out the top ring.