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Is this a piece of early italian tunining?

Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2009 6:51 pm
by carlos fandango
Or just a bodge :D :D :D
Just managed to free a siezed barrel of my new project a s1 li150, and found this :shock: :shock:
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It sees to have bee filed all the way round th top of the piston, rings as well :shock: :shock:

Re: Is this a piece of early italian tunining?

Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2009 6:55 pm
by twin
i think its a bodge,

Re: Is this a piece of early italian tunining?

Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2009 8:18 pm
by Andy Pickering
Ive seen windows in pistons before..someone used to do this cant remember who though..maybe wildcat in the 80s someone like that? :?:

Re: Is this a piece of early italian tunining?

Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2009 8:28 pm
by joespeed
thats a standard piston ,could be that someone has rubbed it with a wire brush.or file or just emery paper,
regards
joe

Re: Is this a piece of early italian tuning?

Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2009 1:25 am
by carlos fandango
Its not the windows, its the filing/ grinding at the top of the piston ! i just can`t understand why they would do it. the only raeson i could think of was if the piston was a replacement oversize and they tried to file it to make it fit, and had to ram it in :o