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Old 10-02-2021, 03:20 AM   #1
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have you measured the cylinders for ovality and taper? It looks like you intend to reuse the 5 cylinders and add one new piston?
Yes, I left this to a local machinshop who take care of this,
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Old 10-07-2021, 12:11 PM   #2
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I always use to weight the pistons before i assemble them to the engine, The new piston arrived weighting 540g and when I put the old units at the scale the weighted 543g....
But after cleaning carbon the made the same 540g as the new unit.
So 3g carbon weight at each piston..mmmm



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