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Old 11-15-2004, 07:30 PM
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I did search and found good results...just thought I would get more thoughts. I know there were some recent GP's. How are you guys liking these pistons? This would be for a stroker
Old 11-15-2004, 08:03 PM
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I have them in my forged bottom end nothing but great things to say about them. Very high quality and Kurt at Wheel to Wheel recomended them to me also he told me they were what they prefered to use in all there motors.
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i saw inspector's before they were put in, and they looked like quality pieces. for a forged piston with a polydyne coating you cant beat the price
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Jordan is right about the fact that they come coated, but it is with there own proprietary coating and it seems to be very nice. The pistons are very close tolerances and the rings are very good. I bought the power pack it came with pistons, Rings, and pins. For a very reasonable amount I don't know exactly how much for piston package by itself because I got them off of Ebay with a Set of Hawk H-beam rods for $745 shipped to my door.
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Nice stuff double box design great tolerances,pure tuetonic quality.
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Have them in my motor and they are top quality. Every piston in the kit was the exact same tolerance. The guy at the machine shop I used says that He doesn't use any other pistons than mahle for high performace applications.
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Just got a set with my forged LPE shortblock. Glad to hear everyone likes them!! Ed Potter at LPE said they use them in F1.
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We run them in our 1400 horse ls1 that kurt at wheel 2 wheel built for us, if kurt says theyre good then theyre good!!




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