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Old 03-20-2003, 10:28 AM
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New pistons = new rings = fresh hone job on the bores. You will need to rebalance the whole rotating assembly, so your machine shop can tell you what your bore size is and what your deck height is. Using that information, along with your cylinder head chamber info, you (or better yet the machine shop) can order the correct pistons for your setup. Then they should balance the pistons to each other, then balance the rods to each other, then balance the crank to your piston/rod weight. They'll want the flywheel and balancer(dampner) to do the crank balancing. Since you are doing all that, it's a good idea to have them resize the rods and put new ARP bolts in them.
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