Red: New ART Piston

Had considered just replacing the top 2 rings on the existing piston, but realized I had a brand new ART piston in the right size (+0.25) so just swapped the piston out instead.

The ART piston doesn't have 2 cutouts for the wrist pin clip and getting the clip installed was harder than on the Honda piston.  Didn't even end up using the "G" clips that came with the ART as they seemed even harder to install than the simple "C" type.

Did a very quick and light honing with the 48mm Flex-Hone.


Unfortunately, still had a lot of white smoke on the restart.  Did some good runs past Baker Beach to try to seat them, but it was smoking the whole time and never got any better.

Compression was up to 90 though (warm).