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Originally Posted by FetchMeAPepsi
Danged if you can't catch a break! I'm sorry about your pistons. I can tell you that you can probably catch a full engine that comes up for sale and piece together a full set though. They aren't everywhere, but they do come up for sale. I'd ask on the chevvvy boards in the want ads, those nuts pull out 305s like baby teeth to put in 350s. Or you could check with a small machine shop in a town out a ways from a big city. They may be able to make some for you cheaper than $4500 bucks.
I did a search on custom pistons and I don't know anything about making them, but a guy on another forum said they were 800 bucks a set at https://www.jepistons.com/
You might pay more since they'd probably have to take one of yours and build it off the measurements, but once it's done they could make them for any of us.
If it helps, ask them (or whomever you go with) what the number is to drop the cost and post in the market place. If it's not too high, I bet someone else would want a set in backup for the future, especially since they're so hard to find. Collectively we might pull the price down some.
Or, again, just get a used motor when it comes up for $500 and see if you can salvage the pistons.
More piston shops i found online
http://www.bmeltd.com/
https://www.rosspistons.com/
https://www.cp-carrillo.com/pt-3507-pistons.html
https://www.summitracing.com/search/...t-type/pistons
https://www.us.mahle.com/en/motorspo...erpak-pistons/ |
Thanks for the tips...will definitely be keeping an eye out for options like that.
Sorry, I wasn't clear on the cost. Yeah, shoot, that may be the exact place he was looking at pistons! He mentioned $800 for custom made from someone. He was just saying that is the most expensive of a list of expensive, hard to find, parts for it and the total would end up (after all parts and machine work) around the $4500 range. No assembly but 'ready to assemble' price basically.