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Tough pistons.

Fri Sep 09, 2005 9:33 pm

I'm impressed! I stripped the zxr750 motor i have. These pistons have done about 80,000km's and i've been running up to 18psi boost and they are still in good shape. They are the standard cast pistons that i was told would melt as soon as they saw boost. They saw all sorts of abuse including a couple of big lean outs while on boost due to a shit fuel pump. It goes to show how over engineered these things are.

Sat Sep 10, 2005 12:41 am

Good to hear man. I would love to do a turbo thing one day, but the whole carb/injection thing is the big drawback.

Re: Tough pistons.

Sat Sep 10, 2005 9:28 am

jpbikeboy wrote:It goes to show how over engineered these things are.


My one clearly wasn't :lol:. J/k, they're tough 'ol engines that's for sure.
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