Ovaled piston skirt

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mattcfish
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Re: Ovaled piston skirt

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vanzen@rockerboxer.com wrote:Unless I had no other possible alternative,
I'd make a decorative pencil holder out of that piston.
It has now been seriously distorted – TWICE !
If it chooses to go to pieces in the cylinder at any RPM ...
the cost of repairs will very likely far exceed that of a piston set.
I just sold him a nice pair of R90S pistons I picked up on Craig's list a while back for cheap. I don't need them because I'm going with a 1000cc kit. I made some money on the deal and he got better pistons. Not sure what my friend plans to do with the augmented pistons. Buyer beware. :twisted:
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