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that would be fantastic! its not past the point of no return yet...

Also just out of interest how strong are these pistons? what would people rate them at? blokes over here have run around 250-300rwkw on our standard motors which have a much less heavy duty bottem ends.

chamfer as in like an angle cut on the ring? one of them had that i used it as the lower or 2nd compression ring? and the top one was just square. niether were really shinny i went by this guide i found later on! i hope that they are in the correct order also yes dots are all facing up. if...

Hey, after importing a set of .40thou cast/standard style federal mogul pistons and rings to australia last year i have some how lost the instrutions on how to install the rings, which way they must face(they have a single dot on one side of each ring) and which is the upper and which is the...

in australia gt35/40s are weapon of choice on force feed v6's with .70 compressors and 1.06 turbines.

vin c is the motor that came out in ur fwd cars in like 1990-1992ish not sure if its rolled filleted crank or not no one over has ever really had a problem breaking a crank, few people have smashed pistons with pinging and iv done **** loads of head gaskets due to poor engine tune

I realise that fordged pistons are the best way to go, but it is quite achievable to run anywhere from 12-18psi of boost on standard vin c pistons and rods with out a problem and thats with 8.5.1-9.0.1 compression and around 240-280rwkw these pistons are much weaker and lighter then the buick...

Just after some suggestion on my turbo buick bottem end im building im using buick turbo two dot rods beam polished with arp bolts and cast fedurgal moungral pistons the block is being bore .40thou and im using the rings that came with the pistons, the whole lots going to be balanced-(vin c...

Got my self a vin c motor here and the plan goes as follows importing a set of turbo two dot rods with arp bolts and fedural mongral pistons not fordgies. The block has powered steel main caps and standard bolts, and will be bored to .40 thou to match once the pistons arrive. Im using a...

cheers guys just waiting on a mate to bring around his bore dial gauge to measure the bores to see if i can get away with it. the reason im using a vin L block is because thats what comes in our cars in australia. any ideas on where i could find futher info on vin c and vin l blocks/motors or...

what are peoples thoughts on ebay fordged pistons found here.... eBay Motors: NEW IN BOX 231 BUICK V6 TURBO FORGED PISTONS STD (item 250272657968 end time Jul-26-08 10:42:56 PDT) are they a cheapo rubbish item? they seem to be quite cheap bu are they any good? also does anyone know...

This is how my roller lifters are set up with the retaining brackets, our motors come out with either the dog bones or these plastic things iv got on my old motor as u can see, not sure if its any help but thought u may find it interesting.

After set of Turbo pistons and rods from a stadnard turbo 231 buick v6 with .940 piston pins - with minial ware, old bearings would be good and the old rings so i have something to go buy when buying new ones - let me know what you want for them, im also located in australia so im guessing...

hey all im after a set of two dot standard buick turbo rods with the .940 wrist pin size, to suit my engine, can be 2nd hand or which ever if u cant be bothered takeing the old pistons off id be happy to take them off ur hands too, other wise ill ebay a set of standard cASTIES, willing to pay...

im very intrested in the rods and pistons what type of rods are they? are the pistons the solid skirt turbo type? ill pay top dollar the only catch is im in australia.... and need them for my car which is also a buick v6, if you could get back to me that would be great cheers tom

cheers guys its called a holden commodore everyone one over here does them up but not so much the v6's the model before the vl had an inle 3.0L nissain turbo which everyone loves and my model coming out with the v8 means that most choose that path, ill up load some more pics tomra it is a...

heres some more pictures the standard bottom ends in these arnt very strong just a cast piston with 8.5.1 the max boost people run in to the is about 10-12 psi with a good tune, although people have run 14psi i cant see it lasting. they arnt cross bolted mains just two bolts the later version...

heres my car not sure if its in the right spot aiming at 200-240rkw on high and low boost its a buick 231 same as what comes from the front wheel drive buick powered cars from around 1990 with a turbo hydromatic gear box behind it the car weights 1311 kgs no idea in pounds lol its got acl...

very very interesting. heres some more photos of my motor all that i no is it is called a vin L or vin C motor im not sure if that means anything too u. i do no that a few australains have used buick turbo con rods with two dots on them i think? and then brought forgded pistons to suit them...

hmm. would u be able to get pics??? which one are u talking about the bananna looking one or box one any idea of what car it came off?