jdoyle

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bump for more piston and ring ideas.

jdoyle

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Are hell fire rings an aggressive enough ring to accelerate the wear of a cylinder bore on a car that is primarily street driven?

jdoyle

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Are hell fire rings an aggressive enough ring to accelerate the wear of a cylinder bore on a car that is primarily street driven?

leeluther252

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Get the wiseco's and be done with it. Really no reason to go with anything else, unless you wanna be different and just end up with an inferior setup.

jdoyle

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i am waiting on Erik @ HKE to call me to complete my wiseco order. it comes with the 3905GFX ring set.

how similar is the Wiseco 3905GFX ring set with a hell fire ring set?

jdoyle

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how similar is the Wiseco 3905GFX ring set with a hell fire ring set?

jdoyle

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are there any other head gaskets that are worth looking at besides GM 12589226 and cometic H1294045S?

LS6 block, LS6 heads and a 3.903 piston.

thanks

jdoyle

iTrader: (27)

are there any other head gaskets that are worth looking at besides GM 12589226 and cometic H1294045S?

LS6 block, LS6 heads and a 3.903 piston.

thanks

jdoyle

iTrader: (27)

are there any other head gaskets that are worth looking at besides GM 12589226 and cometic H1294045S?

LS6 block, LS6 heads and a 3.903 piston.

thanks

jdoyle

iTrader: (27)

are there any other head gaskets that are worth looking at besides GM 12589226 and cometic H1294045S?

LS6 block, LS6 heads and a 3.903 piston.

thanks

jdoyle

iTrader: (27)

are there any other head gaskets that are worth looking at besides GM 12589226 and cometic H1294045S?

LS6 block, LS6 heads and a 3.903 piston.

thanks

FastKat

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OEM rods would probably be okay, but an inexpensive set of forged rods might be worth it. From you OP, it seems like you have a focus on a robust valvetrain, which in my mind, would stand up to higher-than-normal RPM use. Forged rods will be a good supporting mod for this, as the rods experience exponentially more stress as RPMs increase. If you were buying new rods (either forged or stock) I'd say go with forged ones. If you already have stock rods and want to reuse them, they'd probably work, but at least get the good rod bolts.

I think those are the same ones that I used - stock LS1/LS6 MLS gaskets. Anyway, I'm very happy with mine and would buy them again.

jdoyle

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First, thank you for your reply.

They were worth it in my opinion. I purchased a set of Eagle H Beams with ARP 2000 rod bolts.

I ran some stock MLS before and was happy with them too. Sounds to me like there arent really any new options out there for us NA guys.

Thanks again

leeluther252

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You don't need any other options. The GM gaskets are extremely good and there is no need for you to get anything else. Cometic makes some really nice gaskets but for your application there is no need to get them.

jdoyle

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thanks for the reply.

are there any other head gaskets that are worth looking at besides GM 12589226 and cometic H1294045S?

LS6 block, LS6 heads and a 3.903 piston.

thanks