Cortina pistons ??

[Art Smith]

does anyone know if the Ford Motor Company offered +0.030" Cortina pistons?? thanks!!

Art
artesmith@earthlink.net

[provamo]

i assume since that at one point in time you could build a thirty over cortina that FoMoCo must have offered said pistons...no?

[Brian]

I think the key to the question is if FOMOCO ever offered "factory" .030" pistons, not if AE or the other usual aftermarket suspects had them. No, I don't have a clue...

Brian

[Jerry B.]

Looked in the Repco catalog /price sheet 1979

they offered their RY2243P piston in STD, .020, 30, 40 and .060"

Suggested RETAIL was $28.58..............
and that was WITH RINGS.

don't have any Ford o.e. info tho.

[Phil Creighton]

Yes Ford did make 30 over pistons - not sure when they stopped.
Phil

[Art Smith]

Phil-

thanks. do you remember if they were offered as "original equipment" from the factory or as "after market" replacement/service parts? it's my sense it's material given there are no approved piston part number(s) for the Cortina in the GCR. the previously approved "after market" pistons are all but impossible to find. specing compliant forged pistons from Wiseco using the current GCR language would make an attractive compliant option for those of us still running Cortinas.................... definitely not cheap but light years better than not available at any price (new or used) !!

Art
artesmith@earthlink.net

[Phil Creighton]

I know that we got them from our Ford dealer for Clubmans use - just came in Fomoco boxes from the parts dept. Eventually we went to Hepolite for the sedans to get more compression and better rings as I recall (it wasn't an OE replacement). In those days we were messing with different cranks off the shelf to bump up capacity - eventually getting up to around 1760cc from a Kent at 85mm bore.
Phil

[LFFR]

From the Cortina Master Parts and Illustrations Catalog
Ford Pars Division
Livonia, Michigan
FORM FP 7887
(SUPERSEDES CATALOG FORM PC-12)
February, 1973

Section 60, Page 6

Year Range
8/67 through 10/69

Model
A,B,C
A, B(G.T.)

Description
.030 o/s

Part Number
2737E 6102-C
same as
D0RY 6108-G

Looks like they only came in Std (3.1887), 2.5 o/s and 30 o/s

E-mail me off list and I'll send the scanned page.

John Mihalich, Jr.
aka Cortina Creature
lffr@hotmail.com