sixpack,
The piston is the very same stuff of the sixties, they can be obtained brand new from Enginetech (metal leve) as # P572. Rings the same 3/32 and 3/16. All production years here used the same pistons and rings. After assembly you'll find a piston that remais .050" below deck.
As a curious fact, we use alcohol (ethanol) as a fuel, and for sometime this company Metal leve used to sell some conversion pistons, they looked like any hogh performance pistons of the 50's, had a tall dome that went thru the head to give a good comp ratio.
bznhafdzn,
The L6 chevy engines were always quite popular here, offered a good relation between power and fuel consuption, and were produced here for a long time.
As for the rods, the fact is simple: probably one day someone realized that was easier to just bore the rod head to the pin plus interference dimension than to have it cut and drilled to the locking bolt. It has the forhging number 7326090. And the boss to be drilled to the bolt is still there, no one cared to remove it. As
And as for sending rods or any other stuff from here back to the U.S. is quite simple also, if anyone eventually needs anything, just mail me and I'll be able to get and ship it to the good old U.S.A.
ol'55
As long as You have torqued them all down to this value, no need to worry about it. They just were not assembled with loctite when new and did not failed for the lack of it. It should have been good to use it when You assembled, but I see no point in taking it apart just for it.
