The price for pistons has gone bonkers!
Recently got a quote from a major piston manufacture for a small block chevy custom made set, now keep in mind they had a program for this particular cyl. head. This quote did not include pins or support rail, just pin clips. So the sales guy quotes me $1660. I say oh that piston is gas ported right ? ...nope that 10 bucks more apiece. should I send in a piston with valve location center punched? that 150, whats the weight? I dunno but it's 300 to get a target weight.
NO wonder the coating business is doing so well these days...lol

I purchased a lot of products to build a car starting around March of 2021. Since then most of those items are 40-60% higher in price

The price I got for my new pistons was a little more than last time I bought them, with the same options. Issue is wait time. I did call a couple of other places that quoted me anywhere from $2500-3500 for the same set.....not sure how they cost that much more when my two places (Gibtec and JE) are a lot less expensive

IT ain’t just pistons

This is the last one i'm doing out of pocket.

I made it good for that reason.

If I can't get someone to give me what I got in it, I'll keep it and find a 4 door Nova to blow everyone's doors off light to light, with it on the street.

What I'd prefer to do anyway.

A four door Nova with a Pioneer Super Tuner 8 track player.

Shift on the column.

Screaming for Vengeance 8 track

I'll skip what we paid for these and HOW LONG it took to get em! WOW!

Turned a small job into a drawn out hassle.

Glad I did it to live long.

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Originally posted by Mike Rietow:
A four door Nova with a Pioneer Super Tuner 8 track player.

Shift on the column.

Screaming for Vengeance 8 track

[FLASH_VIDEO]<iframe frameborder="0" height="411" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/QOwHzlq-EOI" width="730">[/FLASH_VIDEO]

I have your more door Nova (Police package), and a cassette Super Tuner on a slide mount, IN STOCK, ready for pickup.

Drive it home today.

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Originally posted by Goob:

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Originally posted by Mike Rietow:
A four door Nova with a Pioneer Super Tuner 8 track player.

Shift on the column.

Screaming for Vengeance 8 track

[FLASH_VIDEO]<iframe frameborder="0" height="411" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/QOwHzlq-EOI" width="730">[/FLASH_VIDEO]

I have your more door Nova (Police package), and a cassette Super Tuner on a slide mount, IN STOCK, ready for pickup.

Drive it home today.

Photo's?

I'm losing sleep over this,,,, reasonable priced 72 White interior, white paint to match.

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I probably really don't want to sell this gem...



78 or 79, can't remember. Original 350 with a set of Gianino ported L-98 heads and Performer Air-Gap, some kind of hydraulic flat tappet cam that was laying around, maybe the old .447" ?.

I got one lined up. Dude sent me 20 photo's.

It's pretty darn nice actually, black interior, and has a glide in it!

Column shift,,, I LOVE IT!

Not too shabby, not gonna sleep well tonight.

Everything is more expensive. 95% is corporations taking full advantage of market conditions. Every major manufacturer’s profits are hitting record highs.

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Originally posted by Mike Rietow:
Not too shabby, not gonna sleep well tonight.

Is it just me that seems to think you hijack every post with posting shyt?

These are prices for a custom blower pistons from Diamond, includes gas ports, pins, support rails and locks etc.

2018, $1512
2020, $1950. these were bought at the heart of covid and they delivered in 4 weeks and saved my azz
Late 2022, $2274 again I received them in 4 weeks after ordering

Yea I was going to order new pistons. Even with .125 bore increase and 2.5:1 more compression the calculated power increase did not justify the cost. Hell at the prices I was getting I figured I could just tip the jug some when need more power and be a head in the long run.

I got tired of running custom stuff. I know people get parts that require having custom pistons, and I know I have, but it's stressful being at someone (or companies') discretion. You tell them your specs and they give you a price and a date and you're pretty much helpless, they don't care if you miss a race.

I do my very best to try to get standard "off the shelf" stuff now. The money you save by using a cheap oddly bored block and/or weird length rods gets taken away when you try to order pistons.