70 dart swinger slant turbo build and mild restoration

jungles82 said
So are u just cutting 10 thousandths out and welding them back together? I think I'm gonna wire the Watergate open on the hx35 and use another external one I also have another exhaust housing that I'm gonna use to cut down the large size on my spare turbo I thought about the log style manifold and multi port fuel injection but really I would rather just get it going and why complicate things

Is weisco the only company that make pistons for the slant it seems like a pain to have to buy special rods I did have a custom piston made once to make a big bore Honda old 200 3 wheeler I think made by ross. An affordable forged piston and an off the shelf turbo header would really make the whole process easier

The cutting wheel I used to make these 1.6:1 was .100"-inch thick. I annealed them first, because they were case-hardened and I thought they needed to be annealed before they were machined. I chucked up a 4"-diameter cutting wheel in a Bridgeport mill and ran it through on the line shown by the straw in the previous post's photograph. I had a welding shop T.I.G. weld them, then took them back to the heat-treating facility to have them re-hardened to the Rockwell hardness they were, originally. At the bottom of the page is a picture of the jig I made to hold them for welding. I have not used them, yet, but I am not expecting much of a performance increase with them, maybe a tenth at most...