[Stan Weiss]

Originally Posted by Cliff R

The Pistons have been installed backwards since 1968 and for a reason that has been authenticated to function in race applications by your peers.

I provided adequate DIRECT experience with doing this and all the negatives that came with it. None of my "peers" provided much more than theory and regurgitated inaccurate information about what happens when you install pistons with the offset in the WRONG direction. That's just STOOPID right to start with and nothing more than an old "racers trick" that never really did much aside from cause piston slap on a cold engine. Since you don't beleive me below is a quote from a very well known authority on these ( Lars) who has written many articles on tuning and other things associated with this hobby:

Cliff,
Interesting how when you have done sometime it is fact and accurate. I and others have posted that we have run the pistons installed reversed and had no problems, but of course that doesn't matter.

Stan