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Subject:Re: Piston question...
From:Damon Campbell
Date:Tue, 16 Sep 2003 13:43:42 -0700

I'm only kind of a tech dude, but more importantly i
am a buyer dude.

My impression was that these aren't as good as OEM
(the casting was pretty rough), and there seemed to be
more pits in it than there should be.  You know that
picture on the e-bay page?  He must have polished the
hell out of those to get them to look like that.  Mine
were made in taiwan by A.A. Piston Co., i believe).
When i had boston bob look at them, he didn't say much
about the pistons, but did say the cylinders were
honed like crap.  Overall the set wasn't too bad,
though.

Overall, i'm pretty neutral to them.  The've lasted
the 2k miles i've put on them, so far, and i know
there are a lot of people who have put upwards of
30-40k on them, so they'll probably last, but that
e-bay page was so full of techno-babble hype it is
kind of sad.  Maybe 10% of what they said was true.  I
can throw out at you more technobabble crap that even
eutectic alloys would tend to be hypereutectic/ have
precipitates at the surface because that cools
faster... blah da blah...

Anyway, just my impressions,
-Damon

--- jesse johnson <jjmojo@SUSCOM.NET> wrote:
> Hello all,
> What do the tech dudes on the list think of these?
> Are
> they a good piston? And what about going to a 2.2
> ltr.?
> Are there any negatives?
> just curious,
> jesse
> 89 carat
>
>
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=33623&item=2432982510

=====
'84 Westy (Sparky) w/2.3L WBX (wow... it actually works!)

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