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hi paul just a quick qeuery and if you could help i would be eternally gratefull, i have bought a car with one of you engine rebuild in it,

the engine was built on the 23.07.01, the customer was joe bird, the car was a black 92 saff 4x4 reg num J644 AVX ,and the invoice number was 2738, i'm getting my car all sorted and mapped but when you have done your invoice under pistons used , it just says pistons......£499.95, the question is can you tell me what type of pistons these were from you records??? or do you know from the time/price they were purchased what type they are likely to have been.

P.S. YOUR ENGINE BUILD IS FAULTLESS AND THE ENGINE STILL SOUNDS AND PERFORMS PERFECTLY, A TESTAMENT TO YOUR ABILITYS, TOP JOB MATE

cheers carl

Mr RS500

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Carl ,,,,,,,,,You bum licker

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credit where credits due you fookin sheep shagger

Deano

At that price mate I would say they were Mahles

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i take it they are just standard deano?

PJ MOTORSPORT

Hi M8,definately Mahle pistons,built the motor myself.You have bought a nice clean car there! If you can travel we can run your car up on new 4wd 1600 BHP Dynapack-regards PJ.

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cheers paul for the reply mate, much appreciated, i take it by saying there mahle thats standard compresion ratio etc yeah???
once again paul thanks for the reply and comments mate
carl

Deano

Not neccessarily standard comp mate , you can low comp Mahles to run bigger boost as my old car ran them with big boost and didnt once havea problem

A lot of big engines uses Mahles matey

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hmm, so i'm nearly there with what they are, wonder if paul can identify them a little more with regards to c/r from his records, heres hoping

Deano

He should do matey , he keeps a job sheet for everything , and that would have such info like CR etc etc .

Although to be fair your talking about an engine thats nearly 4 years old this year so the build sheet might be a tad bit difficult to find

If you post the current spec then an rough idea of CR can be gathered from that

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dunno what the spec is other than it was built by paul and at the time he made it stg 3, performance parts used during the build that ive picked out from the list include

200 block rebored to +1.0mm
piston set
grp a engine gasket set
motorsport cambelt
head recondition inc bronze guides
1 x a.bayjoo chip and board
1 x 3 bar
4 x 803's

theres a huge list of stuff used but those are the performance bits in the list so make of that what you will

Deano

Then from that , you could 99% say you have a standard comp build mate

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bugger that means i cant run that much boost then dont it?

Deano

I think about 22-24psi is the max held boost for a set of greens isnt it ?

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going greys/live mapped/closed loop t34/.63

Deano

I think Tiff has that sort of spec mate , ask him what boost he runs , although he also runs a WRC headgasket aswell