Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2014 4:19 am
I had a talk with Tim tonight about the piston situation. He his utterly swamped and far behind on other work and Cannondales are backburner projects. There is a reason he doesnt answer the phone. Ordering pistons and liners is something to do months down the road if he can come up with the money and time to do it. I believe if we want pistons made we need to collectively put up the money for a serious order up front not just for pistons but liners as well. I asked for a ballpark price and we would be looking at around $525 each for an order of 10 to 20 complete kits with new AL sleeves. And thats with Tim breaking even on the deal. I know Tim doesnt have $6000 laying around for a minimum order. So if you want to get this project going lets see who here is willing to pony up some cash. Please sound off. Now be aware the more we order the cheaper the parts get. So if we get a lot ordered there might be a subtantial price reduction.
My personal opinion is all piston kits for this order need to be 98mm high compresion stock stroke. If you want it lowered its easy to shave a few thousanths off the top to lower the compresion to whatever you like. There is no price difference in piston size and stroker cranks although a different piston are just to rare . Id just like to see a simple common order of one size so the idiots who take orders at cp dont screw up trying to build 5 variations of the same piston like they do almost every time.
My other issue is I dont need sleeves and just want to keep a stock of 2 or 3 pistons so I can only help out on the piston side for now.
My personal opinion is all piston kits for this order need to be 98mm high compresion stock stroke. If you want it lowered its easy to shave a few thousanths off the top to lower the compresion to whatever you like. There is no price difference in piston size and stroker cranks although a different piston are just to rare . Id just like to see a simple common order of one size so the idiots who take orders at cp dont screw up trying to build 5 variations of the same piston like they do almost every time.
My other issue is I dont need sleeves and just want to keep a stock of 2 or 3 pistons so I can only help out on the piston side for now.