Thanks Wilf,
I agree! We have a customer who bought just one piston and two rocker arms, to make a display for his desk.
Those skirts are normal length. They may seem short because a stock 427 piston has a low pin height in comparison.
Ours is about 100 grams lighter than an identical piston made off a standard forging! The weight was saved by having a dedicated forging. The material was placed only where it needed to be (ring lands, valve relief pads, pin towers, etc.). Normal Brand-X FE pistons are made from a universal forging, so they have excess material underneath the piston crown to allow the same blank forging to be used for multiple engines with various valve configurations. Ours, on the other hand, are only applicable to non-Cammer FE's.
When I hired on, Carroll's orders were to continue to develop the existing Shelby FE. I think these pistons came out pretty nice, and there are more goodies on the way.
Chris Weisberg
Carroll Shelby Enterprises
(310) 538-2914