I have been trolling this thread and these 2 statements are awesome.

 

THIS IS EPIC!

 

No Epic was that NSX thread about the child molester guy who got caught on the forum NSXprime. THAT shit was EPPPPPPIC!

 

Hold on a Minute...Removing something that aids to the cooling of the piston is just plain dumb, only a dork would do that. This is not a matter of opinions as to comparing it to statements like Tomayto vs Tomahto, but to reveal any myth about "Its ok to remove them" WHY WOULD YOU WANT TO FREAKING REMOVE THEM? Tell me one good reason you dont' want to help cool your pistons and I will shut up for ever. People go out of their way to spend $400-500 on a Meth/Alcohol or C02 system so their pistons won't melt, at the same time removing squirters. Give me a freaking break. Go talk to somebody that builds top fuel engines for a living and see if they think it is OK. But hey, you wanna remove them, knock your self out. you have been warned.

 

This thread makes me LOL

 

How much does it cost to modify pistons/have everything rebalanced?

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Re-position yes, remove no

 

EXACTLY!!!!!!!!

 

It's plain and simple, you grind out a small little notch for em just a few mm into the pistons. To re-balance I'd expect $175 bucks or so, totally depends on where you take it to be honest. It's not that hard but it's a little time consuming of course. If they have to tear the thing down to re-blance and all it could cost a lot more depending on the shop.

It'd be something to do while you're already in the engine, to tear it down to add this is a lot of work, perhaps worth it but a lot of work none the less.

HOWEVER, depending on the pistons you could potentially just go through the bottom yourself and install them and bend the squirters a little to fit rather than grind the pistons. Again you'd have to know ahead of time if this method would clear em or not. IF it does, then heat and bend the squirters prior to install. You MUST heat and allow them to cool slowly, to avoid the squirter metal becoming britle, so don't dip em in water or nothing silly like that.

More than likely, this method won't clear em but someone who has installed whatever pistons you have may be able to tell you if it's possible. At worst you'd save the shop some time not having to tear the bottom apart themselves.

Just a thought.

 

hi thought id give my too cents i was a factory trained honda bike tech 13 years i built alot of motors supermotard engines 600cc super sport motors in my opinion oil squirters do many jobs 1 cool pistons and theres a reason there pointed at the exhaust side of the piston .2 hondas rods are not bushed so the coated wrist pin needs more oil than an aftermarket rod with bushing .3fiber liner is not as robust as iron, piston coating can be scuffed off rather quickly from thermal expansion and distorting of the pistons low silicate content so the extra oil in the oil ring does a good job of helping all of this to cut down on piston scuff. now with a built block iron sleeves forged alloy pistons bushed rods then not absolutely but my experience has been if you road race or hard street driving leavem in cant hurt.please dont attack me simply stating was i learned in road race bikes and how modifying oil jets prolonged piston change in the crf450 supermotard engine cheers ....