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Old 04-04-2007, 05:54 PM
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Originally Posted by cornerspeed
What exactly does drilled pistons mean?
Don: It means that instead of using the pistons that have the molded holes in them, they actually take one with smaller holes and drill the bigger holes in it.

ex: Instead of a 56 molded piston, they might take a 57 and drill it with a #56 drill bit.

The piston sizes are all based on the size of the drill blank for the holes...

What this does is create a *slightly* smaller hole (I think, maybe it was bigger) as the molded pistons have the holes molded into them and when the plastic cools the hole changes size slightly.
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