93egsir

Well I have built maybe 5 b-series motors and looking for some suggestions.
I will be building a b20 vtec. going to run a 9:1 piston for a vortech blower approx 8lbs of boost.

The guy I am building it for said he was told that Mahle is better than JE cause sometimes JE's pistons fail crack or what not.

Anyone experience this?

Build will be std bore, unless we do mahle than has to be 84.5mm. eagle rods, arp head studs, stock headgasket, ported head. IM so on and so on.

Concstructive comments are the only was nessecary. Thanks

non-VTEC

i use JE here. and i will never use anything else.

can't comment on mahle pistons i haven seen or used them.

tony413

honestly im sure you wont be making enough power to break either piston so just pick one.

93egsir

Thanks for your input. I am interested in the quality of the piston at this point. Not the fact that it may or may not break on this set up. I have always been happy with je but customers choice

tony413

mahle makes alot of great products that have good quality i would think there pistons are the same

cjordan

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I have MAHLE pistons in my 84.5mm B16 Turbo. Been running for 3 years now, no problems. Recently took the head off to change headgasket and there was no scaring on the walls or anything. I will soon be building a LS and will be using MAHLE again...