cast or forged pistons

[Evan@InglewoodTrans]

Sorry for OT
Does your oval design not hurt the way injectors spray pattern enter the bowl? Seems like the sides would be easier to miss the bowl.

Can't wait til you motor is built funk. Gonna be fun to watch.

The sides of the bowl aren't any narrower than stock.

 

[Fingers]

The narrow width of the bowl is the same distance as the stock bowl. So, no better or worse in that direction. The long way is ~1/4" further than stock.

 

[codyn]

Going forged for sure just don't know what's going to be better for me.. wasn't there somone one here that drove his arias over 30,000 miles?

I have seen over 40,000 miles on my arias pistons and had zero blow by. The truck was fuel only. If you run nitrous yes the rings will wear more than if you run fuel only. I have seen one arias piston cracked on the bottom of the piston where the wrist pin is but the broken crankshaft played a role in it since the piston hit the counter balance. That was one piston of many sets i have seen pass through my shop. We are working on more enignes now and this winter that are running arias pistons for street use.

 

[Hot COCOAL]

If anyone here thinks your going to get 80 to 100 out of a 1200 hp motor are living in fantasy land.

Agreed, although i think a DD (650whp)truck that see's some "race tune fun" (850whp)and no real compitition, and spends most days empty but pulls a trailer, and gets the best maintenance possible should reasonably get 80k. Now i know that the numbers i just posted are not extreme, but i consider them to be in the high hp engine designatiin, hell the DD tune is double stock and the race tune is almost triple(i said almost) still thats alot of power!:drool:

 

[LWATSON]

I have seen over 40,000 miles on my arias pistons and had zero blow by. The truck was fuel only. If you run nitrous yes the rings will wear more than if you run fuel only. I have seen one arias piston cracked on the bottom of the piston where the wrist pin is but the broken crankshaft played a role in it since the piston hit the counter balance. That was one piston of many sets i have seen pass through my shop. We are working on more enignes now and this winter that are running arias pistons for street use.

A broken piston in the situation you speak of shouldn't even be mentioned. It broke as a result of another problem. I know you ment no harm but some idot will read this and then post somewhere else that he has heard of an Arias piston failure and leave out the details.:hug:

 

[dmax711]

Shameless plug for my pistons. They are performing well for all in the cast version and have even higher potential in the forged. They should not be dismissed as a viable option for those making power.

x2 thats kind of what i was hinting at earlier in the post :thumb:

 

[codyn]

A broken piston in the situation you speak of shouldn't even be mentioned. It broke as a result of another problem. I know you ment no harm but some idot will read this and then post somewhere else that he has heard of an Arias piston failure and leave out the details.:hug:

Well i figured i'd put it out there since there were a couple of people who seen the piston. People are going to say what there going to say. I rather be up front.