- 1. Piston Question (score: 1)
- Author: Bob Lang <LANG@isis.mit.edu>
- Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2000 13:43:46 -0400 (EDT)
- I'm getting ready to start building my next motor. This would be semi-ironic in that I actually haven't started the primary motor yet... but I never do things in the general linear fashion anyway...
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- 2. Re: Piston Question (score: 1)
- Author: Ted Schumacher <tedtsimx@q1.net>
- Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2000 19:34:56 -0500
- bob, forged are not that expensive. we supply custom built forged at $120 a piston plus rings. these are made to your specs or a standard design. since 12.5 is fairly low compression for a race engin
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- 3. Re: Piston Question (score: 1)
- Author: "R. Kastner" <kaskas@earthlink.net>
- Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2000 09:06:59 -0800
- I always made more power with cast pistons ( good quality) for the reason that you could run a closer bore clearance and generally they were quite a bit lighter. Problems only when the ignition timin
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- 4. Re: Piston Question (score: 1)
- Author: "R. John Lye" <rjl6n@server1.mail.virginia.edu>
- Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2000 12:18:06 -0500
- Solo II rules still allow 0.040 as I recall (at least E/Prepared rules still do). Cheers, John Lye rjl6n@Virginia.edu
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- 5. RE: Piston Question (score: 1)
- Author: Robert Bownes <rbownes@neworks.net>
- Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2000 12:21:40 -0500
- Standard for allowed overbore is 0.042" last I looked. On the other hand Bob, if you are trying to be fast and cheap, TRF has some +0.010" racing pistons on sale at the moment. iii
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- 6. RE: Piston Question (score: 1)
- Author: Bob Lang <LANG@isis.mit.edu>
- Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2000 12:52:23 -0400 (EDT)
- It's actually .047 max over bore... this is for A Prepared. I guess I have to re-read the sale brochure you mentioned. My initial reading of that mailing was that they had 22 ea. forged pistons, Veno
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- 7. Re: Piston Question (score: 1)
- Author: Ted Schumacher <tedtsimx@q1.net>
- Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2000 15:46:38 -0500
- kas, ray heppenstall once told me i was older than dirt. ifeel honored to be in such comapny (denise mccluggage was also involved in that conversaton and i really do know how old tullius is). anyhow,
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