[Fot] Question 2: (Maybe stupid?) Turning down a piston size

Scott Cypher spitfireracer at xsmail.com
Wed Jul 30 14:11:36 MDT 2008


I have +60 pistons I never intend on using given SCCA limits on over- 
sizing, but the pistons are too nice just to get rid of.

Has anyone taken a set of oversize pistons and turned them & the ring  
grooves down to be +40 or even down to +10 or STD so they can be  
used?  I can understand the precision lathe-ing that would need to be  
done to make sure they are true, but has anyone ever tried this, good  
bad or indifferent?

Thanks

-Scott Cypher
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Reading, PA
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