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Old 13-01-2012, 12:59 PM
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right im getting my cosworth engine built up and the company that have been building my engine have gave me a price on some forged wossner piston and pec rod combo of £799 thats included vat for any 4 cylinder engine is this a good price ??
Old 13-01-2012, 01:19 PM
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Originally Posted by fiestamad
right im getting my cosworth engine built up and the company that have been building my engine have gave me a price on some forged wossner piston and pec rod combo of £799 thats included vat for any 4 cylinder engine is this a good price ??
Yes, sounds about right to me !
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Is this for a yb?
Old 13-01-2012, 01:52 PM
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Sounds good...... PEC package prices below.

http://www.performanceenginecomponen...entID=699&MID=
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there were a few bad reports about wossner pistons on here a while back,
i went for the cosworth pistons and rods that pec do,
so far so good
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Originally Posted by DAN400
there were a few bad reports about wossner pistons on here a while back,
i went for the cosworth pistons and rods that pec do,
so far so good
I've run Wössner pistons for about 20.000 miles with no problems
I believe the problems that people had with these is the clearance they used
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Originally Posted by rs-tuner
Is this for a yb?
for yb or any other 4 cylinder engine mate
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yh it is clearnece issues with wossener pistons but having good engineers u wont have ay insurance
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ive been qouted the cosworth with pec rods for £892 all in from futuremotorsports.com
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Originally Posted by fiestamad
right im getting my cosworth engine built up and the company that have been building my engine have gave me a price on some forged wossner piston and pec rod combo of £799 thats included vat for any 4 cylinder engine is this a good price ??

Up to 500hp on a stock rod the best piston is Mahle, If using a diff/longer rod I would use CP pistons.

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I have used JE pictons (ok its no a cossie) ant they have been fine! they will also cusomise a bit if you ask nicely!
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