[svandamme]

not sure yet, Peter thinks there are some bad stories related to Woessner. (they don't make barrels do they, just pistons for Mahle barrels?)
Mahle & JE pistons , same thing
Mahle & Mahle.. there's no combination that works for my purposes
Nickies & JE pistons... expensive (import from US) and also very "alternative"...

There's also Helmut Wahl, who used to work for Mahle, and now has a custom Piston Job shop in Stuttgart, he's using Mahle blanks


Either way, it's an odd combination, short stroke, big bore , old conrods, big head...
I'll need to get something made custom.. that's for sure and making the customisation at the piston seems to be the most complete way of doing it.
I specify the bore, the valve pockets, the wrist size, the shape, exact compression and other tidbits... and that's what i get.


I'll sleep on it, many times before i make the call. i'll select the barrels last , along with the cam and mfi rebuild/tune.

When comparing, i think they will all compare reasonably well, some a bit more expensive then others.. and if i send in the barrels to the piston manufacturer, so he can make the pistons for those specific barrels..
eg, not buying pistons with an email saying ,
"i want 97mm pistons", but instead give them the barrels, and let them measure and spec the piston as it should be

i think manufacturing defect would probably be less of a big issue that way and it will boil down to having a small percentage of bad luck, or not.
and that percentage is not that variable for either of the manufacturers out there... Else they would not be in business that long...




Will probably gather cash for a chassis first of all... that would be a big jump towards closing the parts gap and depending on the chassis i get, i'll get parts along with it... either usable parts or stuff i can resell. It's no use getting everything in parts, only to come to the conclusion that the chassis i buy has a large number of those parts in it... and i payed to much for the individual parts i don't need.