Re: Vintage piston?

 What a fricken mess!

I called Wiseco today and told them what I wanted. They basically said
the same as JE. They need the old piston, the volume of the combustion
chamber, and $1200 dollars for the piston. $1200 freakin dollars for one
piston? I asked the guy if Wiseco has been in business for 60 years like
you claim, why the heck don't you have a CAD drawing of a XL350 piston?
He said they've never made one.You mean to tell me that in the past 60
years, you haven't made one piston for a XL350? Unbelievable.

I want a 81mm piston for this bike. I know I can get an off the shelf
86mm, but want to stay with-in the class size for the bike. If I went to
the 86mm (412cc) I'd have to race against 600cc bikes.


"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and
degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing is
worth a war, is worse." --- John Stuart Mill: 

 Why don't you just bore it to 1 MM over and use the $66 pistons from
ServiceHonda.com?
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Stupendous Man,
Defender of Freedom, Advocate of Liberty

 On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 23:24:33 -0600, AWR7MMSTW@webtv.net (Mike Corey) wrote:


So use that one and stack two head gaskets.  That'll bring you pretty close to
10:1.

--
Jack

 Jack Hunt wrote:

But then he won't be sticking to the displacement limit for his class.

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Here they are,
http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd236/arborigine/MVC-085S.jpg
http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd236/arborigine/MVC-082S.jpg

Drip fluid in from a burette and subtract amount from empty volume.
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Defender of Freedom, Advocate of Liberty