pirogue
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I'd like to open a discusion on piston's. I'm not good on writing so bear with me, it will probably be short as well as very lil expirience.
First off, Lou I'm sorry about your engine that sucks.
Dean Pink make's a great piston IMHO. I ran his pistons one season and felt they were fast durable and light right of the shelf, bought them from JSRE(they are other vendors). I turned that motor 10,500 regularly, and 10,800 once. They are fairly cheap and i didn't have a real hard time getting them, and i will continue to run them when i assemble the drag back.
New Mahle piston's. I ran them in the 04 season and they cracked on me, same rpm's as above. they are light, fast, and crappy. I'm told with tight clearance they will survive a 10,700 motor, i've seen it done. I will not put these back in my motors turning 10k plus rpms, on a lower rpm motor they are probably a good choice.
Mercury Wiseco's, is a good high dollar piston. I'll leave it at that.
Vertex piston's. Some of you don't follow racing but i do and can tell you even though i never run them, they are a favorite with racers in prostock class. These are motors turning cast pistons into the 9k rpm range with 155#'s compression and living to see the start of next year's first race. How long they last you would have to ask somone that's been running them. For the price of these piston's they are hard to beat.
Pro Marine piston's. I run these in my prostock powerhead and never had a piston failure yet turning 8700 and once 9000. These are another good option on a low rpm motor. Cheap and easy to setup. Great fishing motor piston's.
Wiseco piston's. OUCH! very particular, like a beautiful high dollar woman. stay away! i ran these also on a modified 200pm. They did good on a one piece plate on my stv. I ran 113mph pretty far and it lived. I put the powerhead on a 2 piece plate on my xb2002 and burnt a piston on the very first wot run. I burnt about 4 of them on that setup. Not a good choice, but i'm sure everyone know's that.
Well there it is boy's just a coonass's expirience and lil one at that, so let's hear what everyone has to say, and hope we can keep from blowing motors.
First off, Lou I'm sorry about your engine that sucks.
Dean Pink make's a great piston IMHO. I ran his pistons one season and felt they were fast durable and light right of the shelf, bought them from JSRE(they are other vendors). I turned that motor 10,500 regularly, and 10,800 once. They are fairly cheap and i didn't have a real hard time getting them, and i will continue to run them when i assemble the drag back.
New Mahle piston's. I ran them in the 04 season and they cracked on me, same rpm's as above. they are light, fast, and crappy. I'm told with tight clearance they will survive a 10,700 motor, i've seen it done. I will not put these back in my motors turning 10k plus rpms, on a lower rpm motor they are probably a good choice.
Mercury Wiseco's, is a good high dollar piston. I'll leave it at that.
Vertex piston's. Some of you don't follow racing but i do and can tell you even though i never run them, they are a favorite with racers in prostock class. These are motors turning cast pistons into the 9k rpm range with 155#'s compression and living to see the start of next year's first race. How long they last you would have to ask somone that's been running them. For the price of these piston's they are hard to beat.
Pro Marine piston's. I run these in my prostock powerhead and never had a piston failure yet turning 8700 and once 9000. These are another good option on a low rpm motor. Cheap and easy to setup. Great fishing motor piston's.
Wiseco piston's. OUCH! very particular, like a beautiful high dollar woman. stay away! i ran these also on a modified 200pm. They did good on a one piece plate on my stv. I ran 113mph pretty far and it lived. I put the powerhead on a 2 piece plate on my xb2002 and burnt a piston on the very first wot run. I burnt about 4 of them on that setup. Not a good choice, but i'm sure everyone know's that.
Well there it is boy's just a coonass's expirience and lil one at that, so let's hear what everyone has to say, and hope we can keep from blowing motors.
