Poll: Next best aftermarket piston and cylinder

[Stump Shot]

From what I gather, the most recommended piston and cylinders are either OEM or Meteor. Which leaves the question, other than these two what is your next favorite replacement P & C, as lets say the first options were either unavailable or unfordable for your build.
Let me know if I left out your favorite and I will try and add it to the poll. Also please comment on what you liked about your choice, affordability, performance, quality and other positive attributes.

 

[exSW]

Hyway I guess.

 

[Warped5]

Just got a Cross MS390 top end and it looks quite good.
Included Caber rings, too.

 

[DSS]

Tecomec makes nice stuff but their selection isn't very huge

 

[Stump Shot]

Tecomec makes nice stuff but their selection isn't very huge

Added.

 

[Stump Shot]

You can vote more than once, you may like some different ones for different reasons, as many as you like. Your positive comment helps as well, as all of the choices have an attribute to them that someone else is looking for.

 

[lwhaples]

NWP ,bought a 52mm kit for my 2165 Jonsered.It's 4/5 years now.Is the saw I drop my trees with,about 10 cord a year.

 

[smokey7]

Tecomec is about as close to oem as it comes. Small selection and pretty expensive. Tgen cross, as they got performance kits. They are very good quality. Then hayway they got a great selection very cost effective. Definitely a serviceable kit is what you will get. Others are kinda a gamble and the installer has to eyeball and measure them carefully.

 

[MustangMike]

I'm no expert on this, but I think it often will depend on the saw you are talking about. Some companies may have some saws down pretty good, but not others. For example, I have seen good feedback for the Farmertech P&Cs for clamshell saws, and just got done doing a 029-390 conversion with one. It looked fine and I just fired it up today, and it runs clean.

Have not put it in wood yet, and can not comment on durability, but I have seen very bad reviews of this companies products for other saws. I would likely not use them for a pro level saw. But to get a working P&C & seals for under $40 shipped, the price is hard to beat, plus it converts a 51 cc saw to 64 cc.

 

[jake wells]

i vote golf i have never had a problem with there pistons but others do.

 

[Brewz]

I would be interested to know if the material used in OEM and Meteor piston is the same as in the cheap farmertech pistons.
Meteor's main attraction is not just the good quality, its the Cabers that come with them.

I will use Hyway before I use Farmertech.

I recently used a cross performance kit in a Stihl 076 and the piston and cylinder were of excellent quality and the cylinder port timings were great, however the piston window casting size was almost half the size of OEM and would have strangled the saws power without a lot of grinding.

I also recently used a Hyway MS660 top end kit and it was great quality but the cylinder port timings were way off OEM.
Ran good though. I think most out there would have trouble noticing the difference.

Over all I vote Hyway

 

[Brewz]

To add to that.... the stupid cheap Farmertech pistons make very cost effective sanding mandrels for porting cylinders.
I can buy 2 or 3 of them cheaper than I can get a bit of bar stock to turn down.....

 

[jmssaws]

I use a hyway piston building 288/066's
because it's a decent piston but the main reason is that it's way lighter than a meteor,meteor is a good piston but there very heavy.

 

[Khntr85]

I know that the ms180 is a saw most of you guys could care less about, but I got one that had a seized engine, but came with a good 16" bar 5-new chains, and some chains for my ms362 for $30..because I am still learning about rebuilding saws I wanted to see if the complete engine assemblies would be a "decent" option....I got a farmer tec complete engine for $40 to my door.... I obviously looked it over good and made sure it was lubed and cleaned up before I installed it....since I am doing this as an experiment I have kept the saw and have been using it to limb with and buck up smaller wood.....I would say the saw has roughly 10 tanks threw it and it has been running good so far.... I have buried the 16" a few times just to see what she has....who knows it may blow the next time I start it or it could be something that would last a homeowner a long time.....just trying to see if the farmer tec complete engine is a viable option!!!'

 

[Mastermind]

Hyway kits ain't bad. But Cross Performance kits are a lot better.

 

[srcarr52]

To me NWP kits look and measure identical to HyWay except for the black paint. So far I've had 372BB and 395BB kits side by side, no difference.

 

[a. palmer jr.]

Don't know what brand they are but they're sold on ebay by Vostore company. I've bought a few and they're high quality and haven't had any trouble with them plus they're in the US and I can get them usually within a week..

 

[Stump Shot]

Don't know what brand they are but they're sold on ebay by Vostore company. I've bought a few and they're high quality and haven't had any trouble with them plus they're in the US and I can get them usually within a week..

Tried searching for them on E-bay and the web with no success. Can you come up with any more details?

 

[huskihl]

Tried searching for them on E-bay and the web with no success. Can you come up with any more details?

If you search for stihl cylinder and scroll through them you'll see some that have a "vostore" overlay on them. Not sure if they're either the seller or manufacturer.

 

[RocketRoss57]

Tried searching for them on E-bay and the web with no success. Can you come up with any more details?

http://m.ebay.com/itm/46mm-Cylinder...%3A104351321560a786897fcda0ffff958e%7Ciid%3A6