Hi Guys,
As you can see from the picture, I'm shopping for new pistons and a cam kit.
The bent piston is a TRW forged that had 30,000 miles on it, and may have been bent since it's break in 15 years ago. The lifter was brand new and looked like this after about 40 minutes of run time. The cam lobe looks almost as bad....
I've see Hypereutectic pistons for about half the price of the forged variety. Is there any reason to pay extra for forged seeing as how they bend anyway?
I'm thinking that it might be a good idea to go with the Edelbrock Performer RPM cam kit just for simplicities sake. It looks like it will give the "Proper" lumpy idle, and still be drivable. I've got Edelbrock heads, timing set, 2x4 intake, 500cfm carbs, water pump, air cleaners, and most important of all, an Edelbrock Tee shirt. I would thinnk that all of their stuff would work well together.....or maybe not. What do you guys think? I'm running 3.31 rear gears, and about 10.5:1 compression depending on what pistons you tell me to buy
Thanks!
Jon