jtcstrat
Club Member
I talked to trick flow, i shouldnt need any notching. just a fly cut for extra safety
I talked to MMR, they carry manley and diamond pistons fly cut for the tfs 2v heads
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I talked to trick flow, i shouldnt need any notching. just a fly cut for extra safety
I talked to MMR, they carry manley and diamond pistons fly cut for the tfs 2v heads
jtcstrat
Club Member
I sent out the broken pistons today for them to look at, my engine builder is going to contact them tomorrow and at least get a credit towards new pistons, hes gonna try and get them to throw in the rings, head gaskets and anything else
1BadSn95
Club Member
Thats all YOU know that is broken. I hope the motor goes in easier the second time around lol.
85GTVince
Forum Member
Jon,
That sucks!!!!
Here is one more thing to check....many times when ring lands break it is because the ring gap was too tight. This causes the ring ends to butt up hard and then they break the ring lands. Normally you can see marking on the ends of the rings where they butted up against each other. It is certainly worth checking.
Good luck.
--Vince
That sucks!!!!
Here is one more thing to check....many times when ring lands break it is because the ring gap was too tight. This causes the ring ends to butt up hard and then they break the ring lands. Normally you can see marking on the ends of the rings where they butted up against each other. It is certainly worth checking.
Good luck.
--Vince
rockthemullet
Forum Member
I know what they were set at and they were quite tight in my opinion... a good 0.01 tighter than I'm running.
~Eric
85GTVince
Forum Member
With a turbo I would have expected them to be on the loose side. At least it should be something that is easy to verify. Usually you can see the marks on the ends of the rings fairly easily.
Anyway that you slice it, it sucks!
--Vince
jtcstrat
Club Member
the motor came out just as bad lol
jtcstrat
Club Member
Anyway that you slice it, it sucks!
They were on the tight side, but it didnt look like they butted really.
Yes it does suck lol, on to the 3rd built motor
jtcstrat
Club Member
Anyways, racetek got the pistons this past friday and called me saying its all signs of detonation to them, gave me a run down of this and that and why. But myself, my engine builder and a few others dont agree with that. Breaking a couple pistons, maybe, but all of them breaking? ive never seen a motor detonate and break all 8 lol. Plus there is no normal sign of detonation on these pistons. Just a poor designed piston. Thy said they could 'help me out' with a new set for 350, proly not including rings. So im thinking about going with diamond this time around.
Just seems odd if they dont think its a design failure why they would offer to help me out. I dont know when ill have the slug back on the road, hopefully a few months with money permitting.
If there was any detonation, which i dont think there was it was proly from the car ingesting sooo much oil after the pistons broke changing the octane of the fuel, again no ones fault but the faulty pistons.
Just seems odd if they dont think its a design failure why they would offer to help me out. I dont know when ill have the slug back on the road, hopefully a few months with money permitting.
If there was any detonation, which i dont think there was it was proly from the car ingesting sooo much oil after the pistons broke changing the octane of the fuel, again no ones fault but the faulty pistons.
cjmatt
Club Member
screw them, post it up on every mustang site you can think of then send it to them. i bet they fix it for ya
jtcstrat
Club Member
lol, i dont want to cause drama. They offered to somewhat help but dont totally wanna stand behind their product. I trusted them and their design and got burned, oh well i guess, sucks but it will come back better.