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Piston ring gap for forced induction

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Old 05-27-2016, 10:37 AM
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Default Piston ring gap for forced induction

So the guy I have putting my engine together is about to put the pistons in and was curious what you guys that run boost set your ring gap at the pistons are forged diamond boost pistons with hell fire rings boost will be between 15-20lbs when all is said and done what would you guys recommend for ring gap thanks
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Dude in the FI section getting his LT1 done by a very good LT1 engine builder.

http://www.ellweinengines.com/ERE65/ERE65.htm

Look through. He has ring gap info in there but info should also provided with the pistons from Diamond.
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My gaps are 0.026/0.026 but the most it will ever see is 10-15 psi.



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