Why i wont be using je pistons ever again!

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09-25-2009 | 03:32 PM

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ummmm...piston slap is no good no matter if its the first five minutes or the whole time that ruins the cylinder walls...usually piston slap happens when the skirt on the piston is broken or cracked. it sounds like your piston isnt seating right to me. thats just my input. also what did you bore it out to?

dam i guess my plastic gauge must of been off... i used a drill and a honer..

i had to bore it to 89mm but the pistons are 88.5

09-25-2009 | 04:00 PM

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did you cross hatch your cylinderwalls at all because that usually helps with seating the piston?

09-25-2009 | 04:10 PM

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did you cross hatch your cylinderwalls at all because that usually helps with seating the piston?

cross hatch? no i just used the honer and water to keep it lubed? what is cross hatches?

09-25-2009 | 04:17 PM

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cross hatch? no i just used the honer and water to keep it lubed? what is cross hatches?

the patern thats left behind when honeing the bores

09-25-2009 | 04:18 PM

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hey mike did you get my pm....sorry if it seems high but just trying to cover bills bro. if i could id give em to ya free.

09-25-2009 | 04:28 PM

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the patern thats left behind when honeing the bores

Sorry i was accually breaking *****! ;)

I paid CFT to build my motor.

Now p-tuning is sleeving it!

09-25-2009 | 04:28 PM

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hey mike did you get my pm....sorry if it seems high but just trying to cover bills bro. if i could id give em to ya free.

I only need the intake cam.. And price is good.. just gotta wait till i pay for the motor.

09-25-2009 | 04:32 PM

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Sorry i was accually breaking *****! ;)

I paid CFT to build my motor.

Now p-tuning is sleeving it!

now i feel stupid...i wasnt sure bro....sorry to doubt ya

10-25-2012 | 03:40 PM

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Noise from skirt slap is normal with almost all forged pistons in almost any motor, until the engine warms up. Je's are good pistons and handle some serious abuse before failure. Never noticed if they were any more or less noisy than others in motors I have built ( mostly sbc)

10-29-2012 | 06:27 PM

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You also didn't notice that the last post in this thread was in 2009

10-29-2012 | 09:01 PM

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nope lol Tons of old zombie threads here.

10-30-2012 | 11:14 PM

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You also didn't notice that the last post in this thread was in 2009

Lol.

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10-31-2012 | 01:26 AM

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dont have piston slap at all and i have JE's in my car. and i was wondering why this old thread poped up lol

10-31-2012 | 01:52 AM

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Since it was brought up, this is why you should have the pistons first before doing machining & also have a professional do the machine work. I am not too sure about using plasti gauge to check the puston to wall clearance either. I know they make special micrometer for this. Plasti gauge is perfect for bearing clearance.

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06-11-2013 | 06:27 PM

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Now it's ME responding to an old zombie thread (wouldn't mummy thread be more accurate?) but I just wonder why people post comments on stuff that's totally out of context? The whole "plasti gauge" thing was a guy breaking ***** on some foolish comments made earlier about using hand tools to bore cylinder walls. Why am I posting this a year late? Because I CAN. And because I read the whole thread, all 4 pages, lol!