OK guys, for those of you who are looking for pistons or have looked for pistons, you will be familiar with the problem of finding a manufacturer and then getting the specs correctly communicated and finally getting the piston you wanted. Usually things do not go the way you anticipated at first or the process is painfully long with something always just a little bit different than what you hoped for when you finally get the pistons.
I may have a fix for everyone in the next week or thereabouts.
If things work out as currently anticipated (always a challenge) I'll have a piston manufacturer that will be willing to build the piston, the way we all have wanted them built, and all you have to do is specify bore size and compression ratio. The rest will be already done for you, i.e. heavy wall H-13 pins, supercharged ring land placement, proper radial clearance for the rings, a TotalSeal AP Steel ring package, two country miles of PTV clearance, 0.200" skirts and any bore size your heart desires. All you will have to do is identify the piston by name for example XXXX, bore size and compression ratio - that's it!
The pistons will be individually replaceable if you do have a whoops (lets hope not) and the replacement will not require you to rebalance your crank - it will come within +/- a gram of what the original was. If this comes together the way I am hoping, ordering custom pistons will be sort of like ordering lunch in the old days when you could walk in and just say, "I'll have a cheeseburger, fries and a Coke", and you end up with the exact meal you wanted, the way you wanted it.
In a week or so I hope to have a 3D Acrobat image of the piston I can post up on the site here that will allow you to rotate, turn around and see the piston from every perspective. Stay tuned ...
I may have a fix for everyone in the next week or thereabouts.
If things work out as currently anticipated (always a challenge) I'll have a piston manufacturer that will be willing to build the piston, the way we all have wanted them built, and all you have to do is specify bore size and compression ratio. The rest will be already done for you, i.e. heavy wall H-13 pins, supercharged ring land placement, proper radial clearance for the rings, a TotalSeal AP Steel ring package, two country miles of PTV clearance, 0.200" skirts and any bore size your heart desires. All you will have to do is identify the piston by name for example XXXX, bore size and compression ratio - that's it!
The pistons will be individually replaceable if you do have a whoops (lets hope not) and the replacement will not require you to rebalance your crank - it will come within +/- a gram of what the original was. If this comes together the way I am hoping, ordering custom pistons will be sort of like ordering lunch in the old days when you could walk in and just say, "I'll have a cheeseburger, fries and a Coke", and you end up with the exact meal you wanted, the way you wanted it.
In a week or so I hope to have a 3D Acrobat image of the piston I can post up on the site here that will allow you to rotate, turn around and see the piston from every perspective. Stay tuned ...