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Are stock pistons forged, cast, or hyper?

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Old Mar 11, 2003 | 05:13 PM
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Are stock pistons forged, cast, or hyper?
Just wondering, are stock pistons and rods forged, cast, or hypereutectic?
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hypereutectic.
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Old Mar 11, 2003 | 05:17 PM
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should have been forged but what are you gonna do
Thats the only thing 5.0s have going for them
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Old Mar 11, 2003 | 05:24 PM
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Originally posted by mtealz
should have been forged but what are you gonna do
Thats the only thing 5.0s have going for them
Yeah, but where we would lose a piston, they would lose an entire block.
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Old Mar 11, 2003 | 05:34 PM
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ok...well are they hypereutectic or forged then?
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Old Mar 11, 2003 | 05:39 PM
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they are cast hypereutectic pistons OEM. cast powder'd steel rods OEM.



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