Does anyone have pics of the stock pistons and rods from a VQ? Specs would be nice too. I am just curious, I have never seen them and all this talk about 'How well does the VQ handle boost' has got me thinking.

 

Bump

 

I have seen a couple pics posted on ATI threads......but they were pictures of melted piston/rod assemblies..... I have not seen any pics of other than after market parts ( sgp racing )

 

That's interesting, if they melt before they break. hrmmmm...

 

I'm not at the shop right now, but I have this out of a Z.

 

Man, what happened/caused that to that piston?

 

Bad A/F mixture on a S/C Z

 

Bad deal there. Bad a/f mixture = poor or no tuning? Man, I feel sorry for the guy that piston belongs too

 

On the other side of the coin.... it made me a bunch of money.. j/k we did feel sorry for him and gave the job away near cost.

 

Yeah those look like most that come out of FI 350 without timing control and bad A/F ratio. Those are the pics I was thinking about.

Hey etx,
Is that the visual info you require??

 

That works. It's hard to see the rod, it looks like a decent design. Thanks for posting that Jeff.

I am mainly concerned about the location of the ringlands on the piston. It looks like a strong piston, as far as stock goes. That puts my mind at ease!

 

The sho manual has all the specs on the piston but I Dont know how to save a PDF. file to a JPEG.??Otherwise I would post it..

 

Here's another... Britney Spears in the rod brg journal hole saying "HI"...

 

Those rods look pretty solid around the crank journals.....i think the problem may come at the shoulder where the jounal joins the rod extension up to the piston.

 

geez. I can't believe that's even a nissan rod.

daking350, take a screen shot and post it

 

 

HOW???

 

Press ALT_PRNTSCRN to take a screen shot of your active window.

Then paste that into an image viewer (Irfan View is a very good one). The screenshot gets saved to the clipboard, so it won't be a separate file. You will need to use CNTRL_V or use the EDIT, PASTE drop down.

Use the image viewer to resize and crop as necessary and then save as a jpeg.

Post the jpeg.

Also, post the page number of the manual so I can check it out when I get home (otherwise I'll have to search the manual for the info ). If you haven't posted a sceenshot by the time I get there I can do it since I have a manual and an image viewer.

Later,
D'oh!

Jeff@performance, do you have another picture of the inside of the piston? Perhaps one that is IN FOCUS ?

Thanks,
D'oh!

 

Damn, I'm lucky I can even take a picture... now you want it in focus!! Damn.... some people!!! Really, I took about 6 pictures and that was the best. My camera looks like a VCR to me. BUT, in the name of learning something new, maybe I'll play with some of the buttons and see what I get.

 

Jeff,

Up that close you probably should use the Macro mode. On most cameras this is engaged with a button, or menu selection, with an icon that looks like a flower.

Either do that, or back up and use the zoom instead.

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