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differences between EA82 and EA82T pistons etc?


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Thank you for your help!

 

So is the piston the only thing that makes the difference between the compression, or is there also differences between the volume of the head's chamber?

 

And what kind of power would N/A engine's pistons handle? Are they as durable as turbo's pistons?

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Thank you for your help!

 

So is the piston the only thing that makes the difference between the compression, or is there also differences between the volume of the head's chamber?

 

And what kind of power would N/A engine's pistons handle? Are they as durable as turbo's pistons?

 

Yes, it is only the pistons that change the compression ratio - the head makes no difference.

 

The N/A pistons should be just as strong as the turbo ones.

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The idea is to mill the turbo pistons to gain a little more comp, as compared to refitting with SPFI pistons. I think it might compramise the ring integrity if they were milled tho.

9.5:1 comp on SPFI pistons is alot for a turbo, altho theres a few running the setup. But its a interesting idea there Oddcomp.

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I'm not talking about planing material off the whole surface, just increasing the volume of the chamber where the valves and spark plugs sit. A die grinder does the trick - i've seen it done on a chevy 8 before.

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i think some people are as confused as i am as to what i meant...

 

usally if you mill the whole head surface the comp goes up

if you increase the "bowl" in the head to a larger volume usually from porting and polishing ect then your cr goes down

 

if you take your turbo pistons wich are a dished type of setup and you mill down the ridge around the dish they become flat top pistons and since there is less "stuff" in the combustion chamber you lower the cr that way also

 

now going on the theory that the spfi/carb pistons retain the same wrist pin location and ring land locations they are just a taller piston resulting in higher cr so you have extra material

then you could safely mill those downa few thousandth of a inch or so and take

pistons built for 9. something to something and reduce it to 8. something to

something cr

so now we end up with a increase in compression for turbo motors but not a huge giant make things go boom type of increase going from 7. something to 9. somthing

 

also i suspect the things going boom due to hi cr in a turbo motor is mostly related to fueling issue's that the stock ecu just can't compensate for .. but thats for another thread :)

 

feel free for anyone to correct me if i was wrong on any of my points :)

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