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Joe's 914 Project

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Top-End Pistons

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Some pics of the Top-End Rebuild:

 

Home-Made Piston-Ring Compressor:

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New KB Flat-Top piston.

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Bored by RIMCO (Now FAT) in California, High-Heat painted, honed and ready to install...

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Each was marked as A-B-C-D to match them with the Lapped (grinding compound mated) cylinder head position:

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Old vs New Pistons.  Notice the thinner and lighter wrist-pin and the lighter inner knife-edge of the KB pistons:

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