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well after some very faultless running of the hog latley , had a burn up coming back from work on 14psi and yep you guesed it plenty of smoke from the breathers,

after a quick leak down test number 3 showed plenty of leakeage
strip head of nad every thing looked rosey with gasket head ect, so the lands have gone again on these crappy mega pistons.

so a quick phone call to avanbar and i have now some decent accrilites.

stripped an old block down and sent away with pistons to scholar engines, all should be back fro friday for a dummy build so i no how much to get skimmed of the block.


out of interest how much squish clearance are you guys running.

ian said about 10 thou mat woods uses 5thou so just some kind awrnswers would be fine.

regards unhappy piglet

always looking for them bigger bunches of bannanas

Oh that's hard bollocks mate.
But from the sound of it you've already made a lot of progress so good luck and long live the Hog!!!

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Fuck no....

is that 2 or three times now?

on the bright side it's not likely to happen with the accralites,.

dont no 13 i lost count lol.

i thinkit is 3 times.

but mini williams is gining me a hand tomoz to get old unit out and tsrip it down readey.

trouble is i will have to do it on the side of the road as my 36 ft garage isnt finished yet,

and will have to try and make space in my shed for the engine stand to build the new one as it is full of crapo from the old garage.

always looking for them bigger bunches of bannanas

When did you buy these pistons? I'm fitting 2year old Megas in my engine now, but all this lately has made me worried...

Sorry to hear that Hoggy.. Crappy Mega's. Was there any sign of detonation on the tops of the pistons?, my guess would be NO....

Long live Accralites, mine now have more miles on them than both sets of Mega's put together. I liked the 14cc ones as they bring a unmodified head down to 8.5 CR though squish isn't great as they leave 40 thou to the deck

Terry

website:- http://www.terryhunt.co.uk

Yes mate sorry to hear about this. I hope i can help you a little tomorrow, even if i make the coffee.

Best 1/4 mile 13.2 seconds @116 mph
First 5 port miniturbo to make over 200 bhp on a carb?
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40 thou bugger me thats big. looks like they my make one pattern and trim of the exxcess to make 14cc

always looking for them bigger bunches of bannanas

Fairly sure my squish was 15 thou, standard is usually about 20 thou IIRC.

40thou is not much different to the Megas, or Omegas for that matter, they all have a piston height around 38mm It was just the original 12cc turbo pistons that had the extra height..

Go to:-

http://www.turbominis.com/forums/index.php?p=vt&tid=121851

Check the list near the end of the post..

Edited by Turbo Tel on 31st Jul, 2008.

website:- http://www.terryhunt.co.uk

yep mine was 35 thou so got it set to 15 thou. should leave enough for a few skims if needed.

boreing all done just waiting oin the skim but should get back tomoz

always looking for them bigger bunches of bannanas

those accralites have taken a sever beating in the Benross machine

and todate there fine

go for ians advice thats what iam running

So sorry to hear this dick, you should have waited at scholar and took it all home within the hour
Lets hope the new pistons do the job, as far as there reputation goes you will have to do something extreme to do any damage.

-MINI CLUBMAN 1380 TURBO-

You can talk! yours are still mint and there not meant to be as good IOPO

Best 1/4 mile 13.2 seconds @116 mph
First 5 port miniturbo to make over 200 bhp on a carb?
First 5 port miniturbo to make over 200 bhp on Injection?

http://www.mattwoodsphotography.com

yes mat but he nether uses his lol.

to busy horse riding i recon.

but the cast omegas are a good piston but still would have to pay around £300 for a set now so i just went for accrilites in the end.

always looking for them bigger bunches of bannanas