OMEGA 998 FORGED LIGHTWEIGHT FLAT TOP PISTONS

Name: OMEGA 998 FORGED LIGHTWEIGHT FLAT TOP PISTONS
Brand: MED Engineering
SKU: MED-1029-FF
Price: 615.0 GBP
Availability: InStock

Part No: MED-1029-FF

£615.00 £512.50 EXC VAT

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Description

The MED/Omega forged 998 semi-slipper piston is perfect for high performance small-bore engines, the plus-0.020" particularly successful in the Mini Se7en race series, and plus-0.040" in Ministox and autograss.

CNC machined from lightweight alloy forgings, the pistons have been designed to be as light as possible, at only 236 grams for the 020 including 5/8" pin and rings.

Tech spec

+0.020" and +0.040" sizes for the 998cc engine

Super lightweight semi-slipper design

High strength for full competition usage

Flat-top crown

Made in the UK exclusively for MED

Lightweight 5/8" floating gudgeon pins

Please see the additional information tab for more detail and advice.

For use with either fixed or fully floating pins and supplied with a set of special wire circlips. Spare forged 998 ring sets are also available and in stock.

Supplied as a balanced set of four with gudgeon pins, clips and piston rings, which are also available separately.

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Production process

High silicone alloy is first cut to billet size and the faces machined to a smooth finish. Each billet is pre-heated in an air-circulating furnace to a temperature close to the operating temperature of the piston crown, then compressed into a rough shape using Omega's in-house forge and custom-designed dies.

The specific temperature, together with tightly controlled speed of the forging process, gives a dense and very fine grain structure to the piston for high strength and superior fatigue life.

Any excess material is then removed before the forgings are heat-treated and wet blast cleaned. From here each piston is subject to a highly developed process of CNC machining, with constant measurement and quality control checks by experienced perfectionists.

Once final machining is complete, the pistons are engraved with a model and batch number, cleaned and sorted into matched weight sets. It's a time-consuming process to create such a high quality product, but the end results are well worthwhile.