Hi everyone I'd like to bring something to your attention that I realized a couple days ago. I was comparing two type a pistons I mistakenly ordered when I had a GT5 motor and noticed one was slightly lighter than the other. I already had a gram scale on the way and something I noticed was quite shocking to me.
Can you tell the differences between these pistons? They are the same size and dimensions.
The only REAL physical differences is that the one on the left has a 2 stamped on it, but there is something else different between the two. These are both from ebay dealers one is a BGF (right) and left I can't remember where I picked it up from. Now let's get down to what they weigh in their completely stock form.
The BGF piston weighs in at 78.8 grams. Not bad at all and I would expect all similar pistons to be around 2 grams of that.
This is where it gets a little weird to me because the piston on the left weighs a whopping 70.9 grams! That's a difference of 7.9 grams. That's basically 10% lighter than the previous piston.
I just thought I'd bring attention to this because when buying parts you may not realize it, but you could be sucking some performance out of your motor if you are just replacing parts. Going from a 70.9 gram piston to a 78.8 gram piston could throw the engine more out of balance causing your performance to suffer some. Obviously not greatly, but none the less kind of cool to know!
Can you tell the differences between these pistons? They are the same size and dimensions.
The only REAL physical differences is that the one on the left has a 2 stamped on it, but there is something else different between the two. These are both from ebay dealers one is a BGF (right) and left I can't remember where I picked it up from. Now let's get down to what they weigh in their completely stock form.
The BGF piston weighs in at 78.8 grams. Not bad at all and I would expect all similar pistons to be around 2 grams of that.
This is where it gets a little weird to me because the piston on the left weighs a whopping 70.9 grams! That's a difference of 7.9 grams. That's basically 10% lighter than the previous piston.
I just thought I'd bring attention to this because when buying parts you may not realize it, but you could be sucking some performance out of your motor if you are just replacing parts. Going from a 70.9 gram piston to a 78.8 gram piston could throw the engine more out of balance causing your performance to suffer some. Obviously not greatly, but none the less kind of cool to know!
