Quote Originally Posted by marshall_mosty View Post
Got my pile of parts back from Richard last night... Brought a piston to work and gave it to one of our materials folks. She said that it looked like a fatigue induced failure in the piston ring land... Guess I will stay away from SRP for the next build. Mahle, here I come!!
So, you may have analyzed the piston as the failure point, and how it failed (fatigue)... But you have to ask yourself, why did it fail?
Staying away from SRP in the future is not the answer, SRP’s have lived a long life in my 331. That approach could put you in the same situation with a different piston manufacture.

Why did the piston fail? Ring lands will fail for many reasons... Over compression, detonation, size mismatch with cylinder wall... and a few others I can't think of right now. If that was my engine I would look further and try to find the reason before I blame the part or build another engine.

DD