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[Ghost]

Originally Posted by ells

I seem to remember in the rules you are allowed pattern pistons. One make is listed can't remember which one. Might be worth looking at them to see if that is an option. Asi am a complete mechanical bumpy this may be very poor advice.
Mark

There were some piston sets done by the American company Arias. I bought a pair off Matt Larrett for my 583, they worked great, as some will know the bike won the Championship.

[skidlids]

Originally Posted by Ghost

There were some piston sets done by the American company Arias. I bought a pair off Matt Larrett for my 583, they worked great, as some will know the bike won the Championship.

Baines Racing had a couple of sets made Matt Larrett bought one set and Matt Lawson had the other set

As Nelly says it was discussed with him about getting some made for the 583s and he made some progress and I think the price worked out at around £330 for a pair of complete pistons including the VAT which was cheaper than the Arias pistons from Baines Racing, the race committee at the time was willing to help with the purchase providing there was enough interest and if a couple of entrants came forward with a deposit.
Delivery would have been 6 to 8 weeks once they had been provided with a sample, as it turned out no riders came forward, possibly put off by the delivery time which would have been after the season started and secondly because Baines had managed to provide an alternative

[Si1208]

Thanks for the responses. I thought this would be the case, so I decided to bite the bullet and ordered some this morning!

Thanks for the offer Nelly, but I had already ordered them by the time I saw your post. As it happens, I got a d-d-discount anyway, so it was a bit less than quoted.

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