ENGINE BUILDERS REJOICE! DIAMOND PISTON’S NEW COMBUSTION CHAMBER MOLD KIT—if you alter the combustion chamber, altering the piston dome to suit is simple CUSTOM CHAMBER MODELING KIT Diamond’s modeling kit provides all materials needed to make your own custom chamber model. This allows Diamond to design and make custom-dome pistons to precisely fit [...]
Custom pistons are available in any configuration, but knowing what’s needed to order them requires careful measurement and sound decisions. Once the data sheet is accurately completed, your order begins to forge blank slugs. Initial machining begins with pin bore placement. Here the rod small end passage is machined, based on your reported small end [...]
MAKE A MOLD Simone also told me that Diamond Racing now offers a very cool epoxy chamber mold kit that can absolutely save the day in terms of what your application demands. The kit (an A-B pair of epoxy cans, a mixing stick, nitrile gloves and a spark plug hole plug) it sells for a [...]
ORDERING CUSTOM PISTONS When an off-the-shelf slug won’t do, you need to turn to the custom boys. by Mike Mavrigian photos by author Need a set of custom slugs to work with your new heads and your bore/stroke combo? A ton of info is required before a piston manufacturer can begin to execute your order. [...]
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