Very interesting!!!!!!!!!!

Jeff Lee · 10-27-2009, 11:42 PM

There are specialty shops / engine builders that have been making these for awhile now. Now this parts have made it to the big time.

Ed Fernandez · 10-28-2009, 09:03 PM

Are they legal for Stock?

Stephen & Horace Johnson · 10-28-2009, 09:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Ed Fernandez

Are they legal for Stock?

That's what I was so curious about????

Chad Rhodes · 10-28-2009, 09:53 PM

this isnt new, just the first time it has been advertised

Dwight Southerland · 10-29-2009, 07:03 AM

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Originally Posted by Chad Rhodes

this isnt new, just the first time it has been advertised

This has been being done by some people since the late 70's. Just goes to the power of advertising.

Adger Smith · 10-29-2009, 08:03 AM

Been there, doing that, even in some limited class circle track engines I build. I'll go one step further than Dwight. He's right about advertisement, but I think the MBA's Call it marketing of a product. It is just like all the other little tricks done from long ago with rings. You can now buy various ring packages from specialty ring suppliers(some majors too) with the modifications already performed. All you old Modified and Gas racers remember when you couldn't buy a gas ported piston. Had to do it yourself didn't you. I still have my fixture. It is so easy now all you have to do is tell a piston MFG the hole count,placement and size you want. Oh yea, any of you guys ever gas ported a ring? :~)

Mike Taylor 3601 · 10-30-2009, 06:08 AM

I always say when technolgy is available to everyone that probaly means it's outdated. I always
wonder about the military technolgy they tell us about that amazes me,which has to be outdated or they wouldn't tell us.
Mike Taylor3601

Ed Fernandez · 10-28-2009, 10:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Stephen & Horace Johnson

That's what I was so curious about????

Nobody's commiting.

JRyan · 10-28-2009, 10:30 PM

Yeah! You can run anything that'll fit in a stock width & depth ring groove for your particular engine.

Jerry

rick lester · 10-28-2009, 10:33 PM

reading the 2009 nhra rulebook for stock, under pistons, there is nothing saying this is an illegal part. as long as there is no mods to piston to run ring, its legal. and to think, somebody has thought to finally build a ring just like this. i do know of a few people, whos names will remain nameless, that already use these rings that they have customize. there are gains to be had, depending on how cylinders are prepared. rick.

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Adger Smith VIP Member Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Texarkana Ark/TX Posts: 2,446 Likes: 575 Liked 880 Times in 311 Posts	Re: Very interesting!!!!!!!!!! Been there, doing that, even in some limited class circle track engines I build. I'll go one step further than Dwight. He's right about advertisement, but I think the MBA's Call it marketing of a product. It is just like all the other little tricks done from long ago with rings. You can now buy various ring packages from specialty ring suppliers(some majors too) with the modifications already performed. All you old Modified and Gas racers remember when you couldn't buy a gas ported piston. Had to do it yourself didn't you. I still have my fixture. It is so easy now all you have to do is tell a piston MFG the hole count,placement and size you want. Oh yea, any of you guys ever gas ported a ring? :~) __________________ Adger Smith (Former SS)

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Mike Taylor 3601 VIP Member Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Somerset,Ky Posts: 1,372 Likes: 355 Liked 308 Times in 103 Posts	Re: Very interesting!!!!!!!!!! I always say when technolgy is available to everyone that probaly means it's outdated. I always wonder about the military technolgy they tell us about that amazes me,which has to be outdated or they wouldn't tell us. Mike Taylor3601

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JRyan Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Aberdeen SD Posts: 645 Likes: 30 Liked 112 Times in 31 Posts	Re: Very interesting!!!!!!!!!! Yeah! You can run anything that'll fit in a stock width & depth ring groove for your particular engine. Jerry

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rick lester Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Littlestown PA Posts: 163 Likes: 9 Liked 4 Times in 1 Post	Re: Very interesting!!!!!!!!!! reading the 2009 nhra rulebook for stock, under pistons, there is nothing saying this is an illegal part. as long as there is no mods to piston to run ring, its legal. and to think, somebody has thought to finally build a ring just like this. i do know of a few people, whos names will remain nameless, that already use these rings that they have customize. there are gains to be had, depending on how cylinders are prepared. rick.