uncle tony's garage gets called out by the roadkill guys

yellow rose said
The problem is he’s not right. He’s wrong. When you calculate the dollar per horsepower is ridiculous. By the time you buy all the gaskets and do all the work you could by pistons with a 1/16-1/16-1/8 ring pack and pick up 25 horsepower.

I suppose if you are running Stock Eliminator and you are trying to set a National Record you might give it a shot.

Of course, in Stock Eliminator you have to run OE dimension ring grooves, but you can buy spacers and run a nice, thin ring pack and make more horsepower.

What UT is doing is keeping alive the old myth that there is enough power doing it to justify it. IMO there are a dozen better ways to spend time and money. Even back then when those books were written. It’s not like you couldn’t buy a piston.

Has nothing to do with liking UT or not liking the guy. I don’t know him. It has to do with perpetuating silly crap.

Well, again, re-read my post/*****/rant...

So far, no one that I've seen has actually done anything to disprove it. So far I've seen it published from MoPar and Ford... If we're talking about a car that had 1000 miles on it back in the day, both Ma MoPar and the Blue oval say it helps. No one said anything about replacing pistons etc. This is stock stuff.

That said, can anyone show me a reason why NOT to do it? Again, so far, no one has done that either. Fresh stock build. Why NOT?

I stand by my post, and YES, a lot of the comments are all about bashing the guy, but ALL of the "other side" hasn't shown any proof of him being wrong as far as I've seen.

So unless you have actually done a real test, your response, like everyone's here, is opinion. Might be an educated opinion, but it's still opinion.