Installing 0.5mm Oversize JE-Pistons
08-24-2005, 11:56 PM
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Honda sells Oversized pistons as well as stock.
You can order standard, .25mm over, and .5mm over. If you order online, you might pay as much as $70 each for the .5mm pistons. Mind you, these are NOT higher compression, just fatter.
You can order standard, .25mm over, and .5mm over. If you order online, you might pay as much as $70 each for the .5mm pistons. Mind you, these are NOT higher compression, just fatter.
08-25-2005, 09:14 AM
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Re: Installing 0.5mm Oversize JE-Pistons
The high price i've paid for the pistons is thanks to oversea delivery and high inport taxes in belgium 
The price i've paid JE for the 4 pistons was $570.24 (pistons pins included)
The price i've paid JE for the 4 pistons was $570.24 (pistons pins included)
08-28-2005, 10:33 PM
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Re: Installing 0.5mm Oversize JE-Pistons
damn,gerrit, thanks for that bit of info, that helps! (stupid JE and their high quality pistons which i want, and will pay for 2 extra pistons for, just to have lying around so in another 6 years i can dig them out of my garage and rebuild my hawk again and not have to worry about finding pistons again, just everything else)
08-29-2005, 08:28 AM
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Re: Installing 0.5mm Oversize JE-Pistons
Just for info - speaking of big bore
Check that out (I don't speak German, so used Altavista Babelfish, check VTR1000F tuning stage 3) - how about 1120 ccm 136 bhp and 119 Nm
http://www.thiel-motoren.de/tuning.html
Check that out (I don't speak German, so used Altavista Babelfish, check VTR1000F tuning stage 3) - how about 1120 ccm 136 bhp and 119 Nm
http://www.thiel-motoren.de/tuning.html
09-09-2005, 12:07 PM
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Re: Installing 0.5mm Oversize JE-Pistons
You can build an 1107 out of them with JE's here in the States . Gotta buy minimum of 4 though and have LA Sleeve do the bores . Head gasket is an easy deal to do and cheap in price .
Really need the 3rd radiator for this
Really need the 3rd radiator for this
09-09-2005, 02:31 PM
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Re: Installing 0.5mm Oversize JE-Pistons
What about making 2000cc V-4 by pairing 2 Firestorm engines?
The only thing stopping me is inability to make cranckshaft!
09-11-2005, 08:47 AM
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Re: Installing 0.5mm Oversize JE-Pistons
Well that would be a piece of cake for that German engineer who built the V-12 Kawasaki starting with a base model KZ1300 . I wish I still had the link to post . Quite a craftsman he is .
09-16-2005, 02:11 PM
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Re: Installing 0.5mm Oversize JE-Pistons
Thanks for the nifty "here's-how-I-did-it" pics. It reminds me a bit of last year's "head hork" on SuperChicken II. 
Presuming that all things fall into place as planned, next month, SuperChicken III goes "under the knife" for JE forged pistons (fifty thousandths over, with cylinders re-sleeved at fifty thousandths over, and heads ported and polished)--a notch up, in many regards, from the now-stolen SuperChicken II. We will also install the custom-grind (one-off, aggressive street-grind) WebCam racing cams and Ferrea ultra-lightweight composite valves, and we will have Dicronite dry-film lubricant etched onto the cam lobes, piston rings, etc.
We're hoping to top the 117 rwhp that SuperChicken II produced--might even scratch the underside of 120 rwhp. Yee-ha! 8)
If I'm not absent-minded about it, I'll remember to get some pictures at various stages of Andre`'s disassembly/reassembly of the engine.
cheers,
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Presuming that all things fall into place as planned, next month, SuperChicken III goes "under the knife" for JE forged pistons (fifty thousandths over, with cylinders re-sleeved at fifty thousandths over, and heads ported and polished)--a notch up, in many regards, from the now-stolen SuperChicken II. We will also install the custom-grind (one-off, aggressive street-grind) WebCam racing cams and Ferrea ultra-lightweight composite valves, and we will have Dicronite dry-film lubricant etched onto the cam lobes, piston rings, etc.
We're hoping to top the 117 rwhp that SuperChicken II produced--might even scratch the underside of 120 rwhp. Yee-ha! 8)
If I'm not absent-minded about it, I'll remember to get some pictures at various stages of Andre`'s disassembly/reassembly of the engine.
cheers,
--HotStreetVTR
09-17-2005, 04:48 AM
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Re: Installing 0.5mm Oversize JE-Pistons
Thanks for the nifty "here's-how-I-did-it" pics. It reminds me a bit of last year's "head hork" on SuperChicken II.
Presuming that all things fall into place as planned, next month, SuperChicken III goes "under the knife" for JE forged pistons (fifty thousandths over, with cylinders re-sleeved at fifty thousandths over, and heads ported and polished)--a notch up, in many regards, from the now-stolen SuperChicken II. We will also install the custom-grind (one-off, aggressive street-grind) WebCam racing cams and Ferrea ultra-lightweight composite valves, and we will have Dicronite dry-film lubricant etched onto the cam lobes, piston rings, etc.
We're hoping to top the 117 rwhp that SuperChicken II produced--might even scratch the underside of 120 rwhp. Yee-ha! 8)
If I'm not absent-minded about it, I'll remember to get some pictures at various stages of Andre`'s disassembly/reassembly of the engine.
cheers,
--HotStreetVTR
Presuming that all things fall into place as planned, next month, SuperChicken III goes "under the knife" for JE forged pistons (fifty thousandths over, with cylinders re-sleeved at fifty thousandths over, and heads ported and polished)--a notch up, in many regards, from the now-stolen SuperChicken II. We will also install the custom-grind (one-off, aggressive street-grind) WebCam racing cams and Ferrea ultra-lightweight composite valves, and we will have Dicronite dry-film lubricant etched onto the cam lobes, piston rings, etc.
We're hoping to top the 117 rwhp that SuperChicken II produced--might even scratch the underside of 120 rwhp. Yee-ha! 8)
If I'm not absent-minded about it, I'll remember to get some pictures at various stages of Andre`'s disassembly/reassembly of the engine.
cheers,
--HotStreetVTR
Could you tell me more about those ferrea valves? I can't find anything for the vtr on there site. thank you.
11-11-2005, 04:33 PM
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Re: Installing 0.5mm Oversize JE-Pistons
I assume those are standard bore pistons? look to be around 11-1 compression.
Where did you get them? also, I want a set of race cams, BIG ONES, where to get?
Thanks!
Where did you get them? also, I want a set of race cams, BIG ONES, where to get?
Thanks!
11-13-2005, 02:06 AM
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Re: Installing 0.5mm Oversize JE-Pistons
Cams, try Moriwaki or Yoshimura.
12-29-2005, 04:44 PM
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I won't deal with those Monkeys at JE anymore. I bought a set of their off-the-shelf high compression pistons only to find that my cylinders needed bored. When I tried to send them back for a refund they refused. Apparently once you buy, you own. Not very good customer service if you ask me. From now on I'm sticking with Arias.
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12-30-2005, 07:49 AM
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I won't deal with those Monkeys at JE anymore. I bought a set of their off-the-shelf high compression pistons only to find that my cylinders needed bored. When I tried to send them back for a refund they refused. Apparently once you buy, you own. Not very good customer service if you ask me. From now on I'm sticking with Arias.
Jamie Daugherty
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01-02-2006, 12:32 PM
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Nope, sold them on eBay for a huge loss. Someone got a sweet deal though. I ended up going with a set of +0.5mm stock Honda pistons. At that time you could only get oversizes as a custom (again, bogus JE crap) in sets of four at over $650. That was about three years ago, by now things might have changed.
As you can tell I'm still a little torqued about the whole thing. I should have gone somewhere else in the first place. I still would have needed to buy 4 but at least I would have gotten the compression I wanted (more). The next time the engine is down I'm going to install a set of Arias' with 11.5:1.
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As you can tell I'm still a little torqued about the whole thing. I should have gone somewhere else in the first place. I still would have needed to buy 4 but at least I would have gotten the compression I wanted (more). The next time the engine is down I'm going to install a set of Arias' with 11.5:1.
Jamie Daugherty
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01-02-2006, 03:04 PM
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Try here: Kiyo Watanabe Racing Home Page
He sells JE pistons at 250$.
I've bought mine from him.
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He sells JE pistons at 250$.
I've bought mine from him.
Ciao
01-12-2006, 09:18 PM
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Try here: Kiyo Watanabe Racing Home Page
He sells JE pistons at 250$.
I've bought mine from him.
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He sells JE pistons at 250$.
I've bought mine from him.
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What oversize?
Do they come with rings?
If not, can you run Honda rings with JE pistons?
01-13-2006, 02:47 PM
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Originally Posted by Speed_Demon
What compression ratio?
What oversize?
Do they come with rings?
If not, can you run Honda rings with JE pistons?
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