icanfixall
Official GMM hand model
This is an update to my burn down last November. I finally got all 8 pistons back from Diesel Direct after they sent me only 6 in a box of 8....
Those were way to high out of the cylinders so I talked to Mahle about the low comp. pistons they have. They told me the pins were machined 10 thousands higher in the piston to lower the compression by 10 thousands. They are the hard anodized tops in the 33mm pin size. They still were too high out of the cylinders so I milled another 10 thousands off the tops. So, now I have a set that works but the hard anodized tops are gone. Yep, you guessed it. I had a shop here cermaic coat the tops with Tech Lines CBX ceramic coating. That cost me $135.00. Money well spent too. The pistons look great. Now everything that rotates is at the new shop for balancing down to 1/2 gram. They will be ready next week for $140.00. All the machined fits are within specs on the bores, rod and mains and the cam fit. So sometime next week I will be assembling the motor and have ir installed later. Its been a long road but sure have seen plenty of funny things happen on parts.....
Will I show up to the ralley....
Those were way to high out of the cylinders so I talked to Mahle about the low comp. pistons they have. They told me the pins were machined 10 thousands higher in the piston to lower the compression by 10 thousands. They are the hard anodized tops in the 33mm pin size. They still were too high out of the cylinders so I milled another 10 thousands off the tops. So, now I have a set that works but the hard anodized tops are gone. Yep, you guessed it. I had a shop here cermaic coat the tops with Tech Lines CBX ceramic coating. That cost me $135.00. Money well spent too. The pistons look great. Now everything that rotates is at the new shop for balancing down to 1/2 gram. They will be ready next week for $140.00. All the machined fits are within specs on the bores, rod and mains and the cam fit. So sometime next week I will be assembling the motor and have ir installed later. Its been a long road but sure have seen plenty of funny things happen on parts..... Will I show up to the ralley.... 
y....
