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1. [FOT] TR6 alternative pistons (score: 1): Author: "Mike Munson" <fasttrs@mindspring.com>; Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 22:56:33 -0500; Has anyone found any oversized pistons from another car that will work in a TR6 engine? If not, what is the consensus on the best brand of piston for a street car? Mike == unsubscribe/change address; /html/fot/2006-03/msg00112.html (6,630 bytes)
2. RE: [FOT] TR6 alternative pistons (score: 1): Author: "barry rosenberg" <britcars@bellsouth.net>; Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 13:56:14 -0500; If you do not mind some block work, check with Ric Cline in Walnut Grove, Ga. His dad used to race Triumphs in the old days and they used a Honda piston. As the pin height was different, they had to; /html/fot/2006-03/msg00132.html (6,849 bytes)
3. Re: [FOT] TR6 alternative pistons (score: 1): Author: "SHANE Ingate" <hottr6@hotmail.com>; Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 06:57:45 -0500; Mike Munson asked: The Australians are verey keen on using Mazda E-series falt-tops. The block has to be machined 0.110" oversized, meaning final displacement is around 2.7 litres. The pistons bolt r; /html/fot/2006-03/msg00149.html (7,362 bytes)
4. RE: [FOT] TR6 alternative pistons (score: 1): Author: "Terry and Cindy" <Roadandtrack2@hypermax.net.au>; Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 08:19:49 +1000; I have done the machine shop work for many of these engines here in Australia, and believe I started the trend in 1976 or 77. I did a batch of 5 of them for 1 trade customer late last year. Rarely ha; /html/fot/2006-03/msg00156.html (7,801 bytes)
5. RE: [FOT] TR6 alternative pistons (score: 1): Author: Bill Babcock <BillB@bnj.com>; Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 18:02:12 -0800; It's really easy to make buttons--I turn them from teflon. I hear delrin works also. I don't know why I haven't used them in a Triumph motor. I always use them in motorcycle engines.; /html/fot/2006-03/msg00159.html (7,042 bytes)
6. RE: [FOT] TR6 alternative pistons (score: 1): Author: "Randall" <ryoung@navcomtech.com>; Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 19:39:50 -0800; The button is just to keep the end of the pin from hitting the cylinder wall ? Randall; /html/fot/2006-03/msg00160.html (7,213 bytes)
7. Re: [FOT] TR6 alternative pistons (score: 1): Author: "Mark J. Bradakis" <mjb@autox.team.net>; Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 21:01:18 -0700; Yes, I'm assuming he's talking about making a small, thin disc that fills the gap between the end of the wrist pin and cylinder wall. I don't have any blocks laying around with two nice gouges in th; /html/fot/2006-03/msg00162.html (7,224 bytes)
8. Re: [FOT] TR6 alternative pistons (score: 1): Author: Herald948@aol.com; Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 23:20:46 EST; It's really easy to make buttons--I turn them from teflon. I hear delrin works also. I don't know why I haven't used them in a Triumph motor. I always use them in motorcycle engines. ==AM== I found s; /html/fot/2006-03/msg00163.html (9,366 bytes)
9. RE: [FOT] TR6 alternative pistons (score: 1): Author: "Terry And Cindy" <roadandtrack@hypermax.net.au>; Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 14:38:55 +1000; Yes, the buttons stop the gudgeon pin falling out. They are very time consuming to make and really should be done on a NC machine. Someone in the USA probably spits them out by the thousands. I'd lik; /html/fot/2006-03/msg00164.html (8,393 bytes)
10. RE: [FOT] TR6 alternative pistons (score: 1): Author: "Randall" <ryoung@navcomtech.com>; Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 08:30:27 -0800; Ok, now for the next stupid question ... what's so hard about making them ? I'm envisioning a "mushroom" shape, with the stem sized to fit snugly into the bore of the pin, and the head curved to mor; /html/fot/2006-03/msg00168.html (8,679 bytes)
11. RE: [FOT] TR6 alternative pistons (score: 1): Author: "Randall" <ryoung@navcomtech.com>; Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 08:31:49 -0800; Oh, and thanks to all who replied. Randall; /html/fot/2006-03/msg00169.html (8,065 bytes)
12. RE: [FOT] TR6 alternative pistons (score: 1): Author: "barry rosenberg" <britcars@bellsouth.net>; Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 12:46:00 -0500; The big end of the button has to be a concave shape with the radius being the same as the cylinder bore. It needs this shape as the pin rotates and the button needs to be able to do the same. Barry; /html/fot/2006-03/msg00170.html (7,980 bytes)
13. Re: [FOT] TR6 alternative pistons (score: 1): Author: "Bob Davis" <rdavis4@cfl.rr.com>; Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 06:31:19 -0500; Paeco makes teflon buttons. Bob; /html/fot/2006-03/msg00171.html (8,011 bytes)
14. RE: [FOT] TR6 alternative pistons (score: 1): Author: Bill Babcock <BillB@bnj.com>; Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 20:43:37 -0800; Yup, and it keeps the pin from moving aound too much. works the same as a circlip without the risk of coming loose or breaking a tang; /html/fot/2006-03/msg00172.html (8,116 bytes)
15. RE: [FOT] TR6 alternative pistons (score: 1): Author: Bill Babcock <BillB@bnj.com>; Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 09:44:58 -0800; that's pretty much how I make them. I'm sure there is a better way. I don't bother with trying to make the round side very pretty, I don't make them so long that they are in hard contact with the cyl; /html/fot/2006-03/msg00173.html (8,001 bytes)
16. [FOT] TR6 alternative pistons (score: 1): Author: "jrhill" <jrhill@chorus.net>; Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 12:29:54 -0600; They may . . . and they might even work. On the other hand, you may want to read Paeco's entry in the Monster List first (ftp://ftp.team.net/sol/brit-ven.K-P) Jim Hill; /html/fot/2006-03/msg00174.html (7,767 bytes)
17. Re: [FOT] TR6 alternative pistons (score: 1): Author: WEmery7451@aol.com; Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 15:21:28 EST; << Paeco makes Teflon buttons. They may . . . and they might even work. >> Ancient History: Send you a piece of junk and reimburse you with "Stringfellow Money." Some of their stuff that I used had b; /html/fot/2006-03/msg00180.html (7,898 bytes)
18. Re: [FOT] TR6 alternative pistons (score: 1): Author: "Kas Kastner" <kaskas@cox.net>; Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 12:56:20 -0800; Having made lots of small parts like buttons, the easy way I found was to grind a piece of tool steel to the rounded shape and it's then a one hit operation, a parting tool and another piece squared; /html/fot/2006-03/msg00182.html (8,184 bytes)
19. RE: [FOT] TR6 alternative pistons (score: 1): Author: "Jeffery Senty" <gp89@charter.net>; Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:29:00 -0600; Does anyone else make buttons? I won't do business with Paeco!!! Jeff Senty Gp89blue; /html/fot/2006-03/msg00184.html (7,729 bytes)
20. RE: [FOT] TR6 alternative pistons (score: 1): Author: "Terry and Cindy" <Roadandtrack2@hypermax.net.au>; Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 09:12:44 +1000; Gees, I've opened up a long thread here. Buttons are not hard to make, mush as Kas suggests. I run a machine shop and do them , but they are time consuming and that has to be added to a customers job; /html/fot/2006-03/msg00185.html (8,065 bytes)

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