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re: Mazda pistons

To: Sally or Dick Taylor <tr6taylor@webtv.net>
Subject: re: Mazda pistons
From: "Robert M. Lang" <lang@isis.mit.edu>
Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 09:53:20 -0400 (EDT)
On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, Sally or Dick Taylor wrote:

> Jim---I don't think the TR6 block will allow being bored out to 2700
> c.c.'s. This would mean a piston size of 3.055, or .115 over stock.
> (Using the stock stroke.)

I agree, the largest overbore that I've seen os .060.

I'm pretty sure the 2.7 litre "conversion" requires "stroking" the crank a
bit more.
 
> The piston sets I found to cost upwards of $1000 were forged, rather
> than cast alum.

They'd better be.

:-)

> Dick

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