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Are NPR Piston Rings as good as OEM?

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Old Mar 5, 2004 | 02:11 AM
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Default Are NPR Piston Rings as good as OEM?

They are on ebay and I wanted to know if I should get them or OEM rings:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors...33623

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Old Aug 13, 2004 | 02:13 PM
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Default Re: Are NPR Piston Rings as good as OEM? (7rrivera7)

bump, also looking at NPR piston rings for my GSR i found them for $65 here. http://www.speedymotorsports.com/catalog.htm

is this a good buy? i know honda OEMs go for around 100.
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Old Aug 13, 2004 | 06:23 PM
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Default Re: Are NPR Piston Rings as good as OEM? (StatGSR)

come on guys, im doing a rebuild soon and already planning on ordering a headgasket set from this place so i wana know what i should do as soon as possible so i can place my order!!!!!!
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Old Aug 16, 2004 | 02:12 PM
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Old Aug 16, 2004 | 03:40 PM
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I'm running it in my gsr. I already put down over 2000 miles on it. I like it. I got friends run them. They like it.
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Old Aug 16, 2004 | 06:35 PM
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OEM Honda piston rings run past 200k miles.. Can't beat OEM quality.
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Old Aug 17, 2004 | 11:37 AM
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well i dont need another 200K right now, car has 143K now, and will at most put on another 80 before i get inside the engine again anyway. but thanks for the help, im guna go ahead and order em.
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