But even Avenger pistons are pretty old technology. Has anyone looked into
using a modern off-the-shelf piston with a different rod?
For instance, I'm parts manager at a Saturn dealer, and the 1.9 engine
Saturn used until 2002 has a nice piston. Short, light, coated skirts, low
tensile rings for better longevity, etc. I see these engines come apart at
200k miles with virtually no bore wear, you can still see the crosshatch on
the cylinders. They just need a new set of standard size rings and standard
size bearings and are good to go.
Surely we can do better than a piston engineered almost 40 years ago for the
Cricket/Avenger engine.
As for rods, has anybody checked the specs on the ones in the new inline
Chevy Vortec engines?
Jon Arzt
Omaha, NE USA
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Subject: Re: Stroking 1725
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> We use the 4-cyl Chevy inline rods. They can be found in the GM 4-cylinder
> inboard marine engines. We off-set the stroke and used the Avenger pistons
> and we have about a 2.0L Alpine engine now
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