HELP!! Need pistons questions answered ASAP

[tim at unrealexpectations.ath.cx (stetson)]

Yes that's true.....sorta.

I want to do this once, the 3A swap is this seasons planned upgrade and I
want to do it right. I want to be able to jump up and down (figuratively
and literally) on this engine and have it grin back @ me saying, "Is that
all you've got?"

Next season might be (Depending on finances, availablity, the weather,
etc.) TURBO time (even if just for the 5PSI I can get away w/. Perhaps I
should be looking @ a lower compression piston as well).

But this being the case, bottom line is that I need a 83mm dia. piston
that has compression between 10.5:1 and 8.5:1 for a 144mm rod (I'm sure
there are other considerations that I'm just too thick to appreciate @ the
moment that have direct and serious implications.) w/ rings and maybe
wrist pins and circlips.

I would prefer hyper-whatzis ones but will gladly acccept forged.

Explaining thing w/ the depth and understanding that spawns phrases like,
"The mud was like wet dirt",

Tim

<LIM> mmmm, multitextured donuts....
<knghtbrd> LIM: with fruit filling?
<LIM> knghtbrd: chocolate cream...

On Fri, 16 Apr 2004, David Utley wrote:

> 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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