HELP!! Need pistons questions answered ASAP

[jdbubb at ix.netcom.com (Dan Bubb)]

No, you can't use ABA pistons, pins aren't the same height in the piston.
9A pistons will give you a really high CR, so not good for street use.
Techtonics lists your pistons for $575, but it looks like they are currently out of stock.
Dan

----- Original Message -----
From: "stetson" <tim@unrealexpectations.ath.cx>
To: "scirocco list" <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Friday, April 16, 2004 3:33 PM
Subject: Re: HELP!! Need pistons questions answered ASAP


> Doh....
>
> ABA's do NOT have the same rod length. It's 159mm for them.
>
> Proving the adage of hasteful waste,
>
> Tim
>
> Cecil, you're my final hope
> Of finding out the true Straight Dope
> For I have been reading of Schrodinger's cat
> But none of my cats are at all like that.
> This unusual animal (so it is said)
> Is simultaneously alive and dead!
> What I don't understand is just why he
> Can't be one or the other, unquestionably.
> My future now hangs in between eigenstates.
> In one I'm enlightened, in the other I ain't.
> If *you* understand, Cecil, then show me the way
> And rescue my psyche from quantum decay.
> But if this queer thing has perplexed even you,
> Then I will *___and* I won't see you in Schrodinger's zoo.
> -- Randy F., Chicago, "The Straight Dope, a compendium
>    of human knowledge" by Cecil Adams
>
> On Fri, 16 Apr 2004, stetson wrote:
>
> > 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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