- 1. Dished Pistons (score: 1)
- Author: James Carruthers <j.carruthers@rave.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 14:10:52 +0000
- Where would one go about purchasing some dished pistons for a Spitfire in the USA? Anyone got any figures for them? (yes Im still trying to lower my compression ratio) James
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- 2. Re: Dished Pistons (score: 1)
- Author: Henry Stike <stiker2126@yahoo.com>
- Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 06:35:06 -0800 (PST)
- Just about anywhere they sell spit parts, mabe Ted Shumacher has some... may not be spelling his name right.. sorry Ted.... Oh, spitbits, Victoria British Don & Henry Stike __________________________
- /html/spitfires/2004-11/msg00131.html (8,000 bytes)
- 3. Re: Dished Pistons (score: 1)
- Author: James Carruthers <j.carruthers@rave.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 14:38:35 +0000
- Ted hasn't got back to me yet... everywhere else either only stocks standard size - or thinks Im nuts for wanting to use them... until I tell them what I really want them for... Annoyingly Canley Cla
- /html/spitfires/2004-11/msg00132.html (7,965 bytes)
- 4. RE: Dished Pistons (score: 1)
- Author: "Gosling, Richard B" <Richard.Gosling@atkinsglobal.com>
- Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 14:47:36 -0000
- So I guess you are after over-sized, dished pistons, and can find over-sized pistons, or dished pistons, but not both at the same time?? Just a thought - I don't know how thick the metal is on the c
- /html/spitfires/2004-11/msg00133.html (8,217 bytes)
- 5. Re: Dished Pistons (score: 1)
- Author: James Carruthers <j.carruthers@rave.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 14:53:49 +0000
- They do exist - I just havent got a price from anyone yet... Been advised that a standard piston can be machined down by about 0.5mm at most.- which doesnt really do much to the CR. James
- /html/spitfires/2004-11/msg00134.html (8,233 bytes)
- 6. RE: Dished Pistons (score: 1)
- Author: "Bill Davies" <bill@rarebits4classics.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 21:27:33 -0000
- Hi James, I missed the beginning of this thread, but from what you've said before I guess you're looking for low compression pistons to put that 1300 head onto a 1500 bottom end. If you draw a blank
- /html/spitfires/2004-11/msg00135.html (8,558 bytes)
- 7. Re: Dished Pistons (score: 1)
- Author: "Larry Vaughan" <lvaughan@pldi.net>
- Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 23:56:14 -0600
- Have a look. Shits may be excluded. Pardon, I should have said brits. Larry
- /html/spitfires/2004-11/msg00136.html (8,161 bytes)
- 8. Re: Dished Pistons (score: 1)
- Author: "Larry Vaughan" <lvaughan@pldi.net>
- Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 00:01:42 -0600
- Sorry I forgot to add the looksee. http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=7937239374&category=33623 Larry
- /html/spitfires/2004-11/msg00137.html (7,715 bytes)
- 9. Re: Dished Pistons (score: 1)
- Author: "FRED E THOMAS" <frede.thomas2@verizon.net>
- Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 07:01:53 -0500
- == Larry, am I reading this correctly, you're calling our friends and their countryman S@#TS, please explain yourself. "FT"
- /html/spitfires/2004-11/msg00138.html (7,828 bytes)
- 10. Re: Dished Pistons (score: 1)
- Author: James Carruthers <j.carruthers@rave.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 12:02:43 +0000
- Oh dear.... not this one again!
- /html/spitfires/2004-11/msg00139.html (7,985 bytes)
- 11. Re: Dished Pistons (score: 1)
- Author: James Carruthers <j.carruthers@rave.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 12:13:25 +0000
- Many thanks Mr V... bought them right away - can't refuse a price like that! You've saved me some cash for sure! It's amazing how things work out in the end... double gaskets... then copper gaskets..
- /html/spitfires/2004-11/msg00140.html (8,096 bytes)
- 12. RE: Dished Pistons (score: 1)
- Author: "Bill Davies" <bill@rarebits4classics.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 13:14:01 -0000
- I think it goes back to the Cockney rhyming slang exchange of a few weeks back. Americans are referred to as "septics", short for septic tank, which rhymes with Yank. Not the most pleasant slang ter
- /html/spitfires/2004-11/msg00141.html (8,508 bytes)
- 13. Re: Dished Pistons (score: 1)
- Author: "FRED E THOMAS" <frede.thomas2@verizon.net>
- Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 08:28:25 -0500
- == Bill, thanks for clearing me up on this, I guess I should have posted just to Larry rather than the entire list, to the list and Larry Vaughn, my apologizes for jumping to conclusions before I kn
- /html/spitfires/2004-11/msg00142.html (8,046 bytes)
- 14. RE: Dished Pistons (score: 1)
- Author: public@sweavo.34sp.com
- Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 13:31:37 +0000
- Quoting Bill Davies <bill@rarebits4classics.co.uk>: Ah right. Needs work then. I suggest Steamies: steamy shits, brits. Of course I would prefer Fluffies: fluffy kitten - briton, but that probably wo
- /html/spitfires/2004-11/msg00143.html (8,463 bytes)
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