Have Forged piston been proven reliable for a daily driver? What is a ballpark price for a set not coated and installed? Also what is the likely hood ti will trash your block if you crack a piston?
Forged Piston
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I heard there is a truck out of Merchants that is fairly high mileage with forged pistons.
The cost numbers I've heard are about $1,200 a set plus rings.
The stocker LB7/Y's seem to hold up pretty good under 800 hp and with the right tuning and injectors.
To Install a set of pistons without doing the whole shabang might not make good sense.
It would be a good time to put some rod's and stud's in as well.
If I owned a shop and you asked me to install a set of forged pistons, I would say it would cost you about $4,000 out the door.
To pull one of these motors and disassemble it to change pistons is not a Saturday project. It's a real big deal and lot's of hours. I think GM charges 30 hours just to do a injector change on a LB7.....@$90/hr..could be off a little but it cost a lot of Time/Money once you go inside. My numbers are open for debate.
The cost numbers I've heard are about $1,200 a set plus rings.
The stocker LB7/Y's seem to hold up pretty good under 800 hp and with the right tuning and injectors.
To Install a set of pistons without doing the whole shabang might not make good sense.
It would be a good time to put some rod's and stud's in as well.
If I owned a shop and you asked me to install a set of forged pistons, I would say it would cost you about $4,000 out the door.
To pull one of these motors and disassemble it to change pistons is not a Saturday project. It's a real big deal and lot's of hours. I think GM charges 30 hours just to do a injector change on a LB7.....@$90/hr..could be off a little but it cost a lot of Time/Money once you go inside. My numbers are open for debate.
Pistons
If I could find some for $1200 +/- Ill take a set! I can't find any that cheap. I need some any takers? Thanks Jeff
If I could find some for $1200 +/- Ill take a set! I can't find any that cheap. I need some any takers? Thanks Jeff
In that case, the shop rate would be $6,000 for the install...........
Stock cut/coated pistons are looking pretty good right now.
Stock cut/coated pistons are looking pretty good right now.
Ross and Arias sell for much less but require double the amount of piston to cylinder wall clearance over the Mahle.
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100% agree FWIW Arias come coated
So....looking at the cost of new stock pistons, rings, coating & cutting it seems that the money difference is close to the forged price.
im looking at resusing my stockers here in a couple months
plan on cleaning the soot and carbon off them and get then dyed for surface cracks.. before i have guy cut them to ~16:1.
if they fail im most likey will be putitng forgde in the engine...
if properly setup i can see fordge lasting in a DD setup
i was kindaly reminded you cant use ferious base checking stuff on none ferious metals DOH!
thanks guy
plan on cleaning the soot and carbon off them and get then dyed for surface cracks.. before i have guy cut them to ~16:1.
if they fail im most likey will be putitng forgde in the engine...
if properly setup i can see fordge lasting in a DD setup
i was kindaly reminded you cant use ferious base checking stuff on none ferious metals DOH!
thanks guy
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Dude, get a mac, it spell checks EVERYTHING! and it doesn't get AFU from porn....
Send them my way i will drive the hell outta them with rods and cam hell ill send u my heads to