Help ID this piston, block, and head gasket

[Rabbit on Roids]

...that is pure stupidity. you dont make a 1.9 diesel out of a stroker gas engine. thats the dumbest thing ive ever heard. the guy who built this engine, did he smoke a pound of crack every day when he was building this engine? cause his way of thinking was severely clouded.

[R.O.R-2.0]

Bump for the epic-ness contained in this thread...

[smutts]

Bumpity Bump.
 

[Gizmoman]

My guess is that the original builder lives South of the Border. I'm about 15 miles from TJ and used to go down there all the time as part of my job. I have seen some amazing things hacked together (that actually worked) and this would fit right in. When you have no money you so whatever you have to get by, and some of these guys are the masters of hack.

If that's the case, I applaud him

[R.O.R-2.0]

they most certainly didnt have +1mm german stroker cranks just laying around in mexico... not likely anyways..

[wolf_walker]

Cuba!


Good friend of mine went there years ago, swears he saw an old man filing a set of piston rings by hand.
Every day, all day, making rings by hand.

[ORCoaster]

Gee I didn't know.  Done before with stars and fireworks.  Well, I'll be dipped.

[R.O.R-2.0]

Cuba!


Good friend of mine went there years ago, swears he saw an old man filing a set of piston rings by hand.
Every day, all day, making rings by hand.

like, 100% hand made, or hand gapped?

[wolf_walker]

Hand made twas said.

[R.O.R-2.0]

Hand made twas said.

wonder how round they were? lol..

[wolf_walker]

Got me, heard some wild stuff out of there about machines. 

[rs899]

You guys are good.  I have some sort of mongrel VW gasser block living under my bench I will have to show you.