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Hey guys,

im in the market for some forgies, i hadnt heard of alc pistons before today, im just wondering who has used them are they good, bad etc really appreciate opions on this.

cheers dan

i have owned a car fitted with acls so aclled RACE series pistons and have only good things to say about them. my cuz has a stoker 355 commo with acl pistons built by motortech in wollonging, my mate pete from PDK racing uses them in his high hp hq racer, and has NEVER had a failure. thats my 2c worth.

i have owned a car fitted with acls so aclled RACE series pistons and have only good things to say about them. my cuz has a stoker 355 commo with acl pistons built by motortech in wollonging, my mate pete from PDK racing uses them in his high hp hq racer, and has NEVER had a failure. thats my 2c worth.

Are those mentioned cars ... equipped with forced induction?

Not that im doubting the pistons, but using a N/A example as opposed to Boost applications can be different

I personally cannot say a bad thing about ACL products, including pistons. Their lines, as most Australian products, are manufactured to extremely strict tolerances therefore the end product is of an extremely high standard.

Although not all “race series” pistons are forged, most that are suited to high compression & forced induction applications are. This does definitely includes the entire Nissan, Mitsubishi, Subaru & Toyota applications

These items are tried and tested.

Therefore all I can say is … support the local product.

according to the distributor here in nz their pistons are made by ross in the US. dont know about supporting the local product but ross are known to make a very strong piston

im going to be running acl cast pistons in my rb30 so will be interesting to see how they go. the only criticisms ive heard are the rings being weak

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