Back in the day I tried to educate myself on the rules of the road on
this kind of stuff, and my recollection is for any engine that will run
on street gas, use a cast piston. If you are going to bump the
compression up to the point of needing to run on race gas, use forged
pistons. Has something changed?
I can't say how many hundreds of thousands, if not millions of County
pistons are happily going up and down in engines around the world, they
seem to be proved to work fine in engines that are going to run on pump
gas. I've used them in a number of rebuilds and know many of us here
have done the same.
I'm not saying I won't jump on a set of NOS AE pistons when I find them,
though!
> On Feb 2, 2023, at 2:53 PM, Dave Riddle via Fot <fot@autox.team.net>
> wrote:
>
> Well the Machine shop that can work on my TR3 engine said they are 4
> months out so that certainly gives me time to order Pistons. For
> Street use and only the occasional Track day I have time to see about
> ordering from JE or Wisco rather than the flat top pistons from Moss
> that are manufactured in India (even if they are sent to the UK where
> they are machined). Does anyone have specs for a piston I could see
> about getting made or can recommend a set? My Engine does have an
> Isky Cam (not sure which one based on the Cam Chart that went around
> the other week).
>
> Currently the car does have flat top pistons in 87mm. Any real
> concerns moving up to an 89m? I have heard cooling can be an issue
> and the car does have a Wizard Radiator and an Oil Cooler
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