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    Quote Originally Posted by jerry clayton View Post
    piston manufacturing has been moved to India---and the first ones to arrive were junk, which put the companies even more behind

    and then of course---these engines that we all love that haven't been built for years are not generating the sales that they need to keep up the supply chain----

    if you want to try Diamond, Mahle, Srp, Ross , etc------but they will cost more
    and the speed pros are still not very hot jerry.. i just used some speed pros hyper s and the pins look very bad like the were done on a belt sander the speed pros were so bad last year they did not have any that they could sell . so i bored a 351 and used cast mahle pistons and they were under size by 0002.5 then for a 040 over bore ? i was happy i did not just hone it to 4.040
    Last edited by pat mccarthy; 05-20-2009 at 06:37 PM.
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