X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Sender: To: lml@lancaironline.net Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2014 09:01:44 -0400 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from nm8-vm0.bullet.mail.ne1.yahoo.com ([98.138.91.23] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 6.0.9e) with ESMTPS id 7058560 for lml@lancaironline.net; Fri, 01 Aug 2014 08:03:38 -0400 Received-SPF: pass receiver=logan.com; client-ip=98.138.91.23; envelope-from=mcmess1919@yahoo.com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s2048; d=yahoo.com; b=WXLf2LeWQXGQNmcvNR6q45bMRy2XBqOB0Q50MydMJWIkmrij0quK8KXKgIMq0YkGn+EedRsmQ28KzYtW64JGz2g/7X5BxgYXkWxgTnJr6YJa8+xTRXQYEvVPi1uf9+1qZLNYj+Lwh7XNR8G5VksSqKimJxfVsQEZ5C9zTlDOYHPSs/ig68WiVSrLKIQL7db6LCjZvkWFcjAP0eLSUeMbiH8W/MKQD1KgbIb808t/6CA05XQplqosyx70erJVTWM/btbLEj6Gq6Q+gX/EWIXq3RBQueG/i1/HoXwRRbn4SscChqnBZkHPzpnlkV9b3xrAb8+tunkUSPOZ4HIFrFX5Jw==; Received: from [98.138.100.116] by nm8.bullet.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 01 Aug 2014 12:03:03 -0000 Received: from [98.138.226.56] by tm107.bullet.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 01 Aug 2014 12:03:03 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp207.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 01 Aug 2014 12:03:03 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 356491.45725.bm@smtp207.mail.ne1.yahoo.com X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-YMail-OSG: xeRJkrcVM1n_C9ITDtOviHIxk2z8KaukwAZaiT9CtPEiPWB DHpCFomsZqtUi7gtSDZNnr5Axg477pyCc4Fo5.WgfkTK2jxkPEo.4lsn3D5Y d78A6e8kMISnjSP5Idvn1z8WYOOYsA0Mgl.miBVNrLUHDCQrSEpwAdXB8M2A Pl5RMw6I5Zi7cR5tEA6aUNZolq1XztCaH..rWj7BauyYZKZ72d7350urDjAk HXBll8JyEuNawPzeGFxumBAETt8FC_FDpY6C7vMZkSxYhmIgs6W1DU2F.Q2q FLCTCuI0vjwWZ5x_aMAQhVXK.hcVKFPycNP3pWXpRMFMlFfLNxjzjN.w5R3O PArMoGf_pGPtoJCecmyQq5CypA5YHgfOnnk6IcVY4kNcKQGZxhJD.Z2S.8nE ekg3D79fs0Qo6gtERd_F3qwnBqQn1dEmZ07pX9oCOQOZDWtabKZ1p6dN3nGp 2b84s_FLC8ZYLmvU6YobvzzM3l6qxYULOvbsL5xslJtaZ5PcMejuj_tIRJQZ US0TR4EMBSAjOxJb3EP9Fq9ehaXqQ X-Yahoo-SMTP: rK4i7HqswBC7mDE8.sOiWQeO4CeReXc- From: "Steve Colwell" X-Original-To: "'Lancair Mailing List'" References: In-Reply-To: Subject: Piston used in Performance Engines TSIO-550 X-Original-Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2014 07:03:07 -0500 X-Original-Message-ID: <002b01cfad80$8edbc3a0$ac934ae0$@com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 12.0 Thread-Index: Ac+tb5UCXxj/rDYfRRWj/vNJaQKBQQADmD1w Content-Language: en-us The compression ring land and ring on all 6 pistons of our Performance Engines Cont. IO-550 failed before the 40 hours were flown off. It is a bitter pill to swallow but a full tear down inspection is necessary. Barrett Performance Engines did our inspection after we replaced our pistons with stock ECI pistons/rings and luckily did not find anything else. We now average 15 hours per quart. Steve Colwell Legacy 450 hours