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Old 11-08-2013, 01:16 PM   #13
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Default Re: .031 dykes

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Originally Posted by Alan Roehrich View Post
Far more. And more than his pistons are worth, as he said. The only place I'd trust to do the machine work is Rebco, and I'm pretty sure it would be very expensive. Ring groove tolerances are held far closer than 99.9999999% of shops can measure, below 0.0000".

Dykes rings are not that expensive, they're just relatively outdated.
We cut our own grooves on a lot of pistons and really had no way to get a super tight ring groove to ring tolerance.......We had what we had.....and ran them that way.....
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