I blew the head gasket about a year ago and the car sat in the garage at my house until yesterday when I brought the car to my shop to pull the engine and go through motor instead of just replacing the head gasket and dang am I glad I did. 3 out of 4 of my Wiseco piston skirts are cracked. These pistons have 90K ish miles on them. They show very little detonation on them. I have to admit I am disappointed in this kind of a problem for the money spent. It really seems like a design flaw. The skirts don't have hardly any ware on them so its not like the pistons where slapping the cylinder walls. Anyone else experience a similar issues?

Never seen just the skirts crack before. I wouldn't think forged slugs would have that problem.

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Thats crazy. What happened when the head gasket blew?

You should send an email to wiseco with those pics. I'm sure they would want to see that especially for product development. I bent two pins from a spun bearing (long story) so I called them just to order two brand new pins. The guy was intrigued and I was honest. He told me that since their product failed on me and even though it was basically my fault he offered me brand new armor glide pistons with upgraded 5 mm thick wall pins (normal is 4mm) for $580 shipped to Hawaii. Retail was well over $740 not including the upgraded pins! Very solid company!

Wow that's crazy. You're lucky they didn't separate and cause all sorts of havoc.