R3W7 Assembly

We talked about the 1/16" rings (.062) and the .043" rings and he said they had seen good results with the 1.5mm. I didn't press it much further as I am generally not that ring-specific to begin with. I sort of think he said the Total Seal rings he liked were sold in 1.5MM so that's why, but I could be mis-remembering that.

He surprised me a bit in the rod and piston areas...we talked about having Diamond lighten the pistons and using lighter rods but he said at the power levels I'd be at...he's seen too many of them come apart. So I used the Molnar 'Power Adder' rods which are their heaviest (but still lighter than a stock rod) and left the pistons un-lightened. This is a 504 gram piston and is made on their basic lightweight profile, but no additional material is removed.