HELP!! Need pistons questions answered ASAP

[mr.utility at highstream.net (David Utley)]

I might be able to offer some ideas, and although I cringe at the thought of 
another debate, -BUT-, why do you want to go forged?  If you are planning on 
doing something extreme in the future (IE, turbo+nitrous), then I might could 
understand.  If I have my facts straight, forged pistons tend to be hard on 
rings even after they are fully warm.  If you were racing, this would not 
matter, but I am under the impression this was for a quick DD?

Cheers,
  David Utley

Quoting stetson <tim@unrealexpectations.ath.cx>:

> K then,
> 
> A rather demanding topic I know...but I'm under the gun here.
> 
> So....as you know, the 3A is in the shop where it was granted a clean bill
> of health for just about everything EXCEPT the cylinder bore.
> 
> That needs to be milled .50mm over stock.
> 
> This means I need new pistons (the shop will not bore w/o them in hand). I
> would like to get some nice hypereutetic <sp?> or forged and the only
> place I'm finding for them is Autotech for........
> 
> $750 !!!!!!!!!!!
> 
> YEA GODS AND LITTLE FISHES!!!!!!!!!
> 
> Right now for block cleaning, tolerence checking, magnafluxing, and boring
> it's costing me $260 +tax. This means if I can find a cheaper piston set I
> could perhaps get it blueprinted and balanced.
> 
> I want to do this to this engine ONCE, no more. The engine may not stay w/
> this Roc but I want to have a known, proven, hardened engine @ the end of
> this fiscal blood letting that I KNOW is good.
> 
> I have Dave @ Adirondack checking into pistons for me right now (Potter
> can't get 'em) but will appreciate any and all info or recommendations!
> 
> Are there any pistons from a ABA or 2.0 16v that could be used in it's
> place? Weisco's site has them listed that seem to have the same diameter I
> need (83mm) and the right rod length I need (144mm) and the right
> compression (10.4-10.5).
> 
> Any thoughts Uber-Dubbers?
> 
> Burning up my mail accounts quotas,
> 
> Tim
> 
> 
> New York is a jungle, they tell you.  You could go further, and say that
> New York is a jungle.  New York *is a jungle.*  Beneath the columns of
> the old rain forest, made of melting macadam, the mean Limpopo of swamped
> Ninth Avenue bears an angry argosy of crocs and dragons, tiger fish, noise
> machines, sweating rainmakers.  On the corners stand witchdoctors and
> headhunters, babbling voodoo-men -- the natives, the jungle-smart natives.
> And at night, under the equatorial overgrowth and heat-holding cloud
> cover, you hear the ragged parrot-hoot and monkeysqueak of the sirens,
> and then fires flower to ward off monsters.  Careful: the streets are
> sprung with pits and nets and traps.  Hire a guide.  Pack your snakebite
> gook and your blowdart serum.  Take it seriously.  You have to get a
> bit jungle-wise.
> -- Martin Amis, _Money_
> 
> 
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