My wiseco wrist pins were delayed as they were neglected in shipping. But I called wiseco monday, i have them now and have begun to assemble them. One pin feels stiffer on the rod than the others, that piston will be taken/discussed with Jim before assembly. All the other pistons are assembled on their respective rod with rings. I didn’t install the rods today as I noticed that the pistons have asymmetrical valve dishes opposite from one another. This is normal, I’m sure that this is how they were intended to be designed. I originally figured, “aha, the intake has longer duration, higher lit and a bigger valve, under it, should sit the larger reliefs”, then 5 seconds later I realized that the piston approaches the open exhaust valve a lot more than the open intake valve, I don’t know how open the intake valve will be when the piston is right under it. I don’t even really think it matters, but i want to do things as they were designed to be assembled. I’ll call around, see if i can find an answer. Shortly the head should be installed.

here are some comparative pics of the ports on the head, and the assembled pistons and rods.

BTW, eagle rods do have markings identifying the rod to its cap, but it’s super faint.

thanks to PSI for providing the air conditioned engine building space, to house all my shiz, deal with me and take the pics. If anyone wants to come by the shop, right next to my disassembling engine (from which you see the stock port), there’s an S85 also being dismantled for a future project, within 20ft from that, there’s 2 HPF cars (stage 2.5 and 3), a 500+whp AA e36 M, a 500+whp e46 AA M3, and a GPower e60 M5 twin supercharger kit in assembly.

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