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Euro piston upgrade
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Bmcallister,
Welcome to the board. Take a look at this thread it might answer some of your questions. Are you sure they used 10.3:1 pistons in the rebuild? Make sure you get a PPI before you buy.10.3:1 pistons
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Thank you Michael! I learned quite a bit from that thread.
A PPI with leak down is being done Tuesday. The shop doing it is Motorsports in Lexington, KY. I even went over Peter Zimmerman's PPI list with them to make sure they will be doing what I want. I will also have them check the compression ratios. The owner (2nd) has all receipts since the car was new, so I can find out exactly (I hope) about the rebuild. I will also verify what octane fuels are available here in the US capital (my Volvo S80 would probably run on cheeseburgers if I ask it to). Thanks again! |
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Less brakes, more gas!
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The estimated cause of my ring disintigration was bad gas caused detonations. I'm running a Euro SC w/ 9.8:1 single plugs. See the link in my sig. for the thread.
I think if you merely swap pistons you wont see much problems. If the car has run 40k on the swap then I would think that was evidence that the engine is solid with the euro's in. I believe Chris Bennet did this swap to his engine... prior to the first implosion after going big bore... hehehee perhaps he can chime in. -Michael
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