How much for a piston?!

[Gucci]

Following on from the corporate gift thread, we looked at creating an unusual gift reflecting high performance. I wondered if we got hold of a polished piston and engraved the top.

How much is a single piston - and can they be purchased?

Thanks

 

[nick mercedes]

Following on from the corporate gift thread, we looked at creating an unusual gift reflecting high performance. I wondered if we got hold of a polished piston and engraved the top.

How much is a single piston - and can they be purchased?

Thanks

I'll sell you as many as you want.

New ones are about £70.

But why would anyone want a piston, engraved, polished or in any other state?

 

[DSM10000]

Following on from the corporate gift thread, we looked at creating an unusual gift reflecting high performance. I wondered if we got hold of a polished piston and engraved the top.

How much is a single piston - and can they be purchased?

Thanks

Ex Formula 1 Pistons are occasionally given as gifts

 

[flango]

I actually have exactly that engraved pistons from motorsport events also have a collection of valves and crossed valves mounted and engraved, I think they are really good for this sort of thing. Apparently £2 per valve or £25 per piston depending upon which manufacturer you choose to use, good luck but great idea

 

[flango]

Ex Formula 1 Pistons are occasionally given as gifts

I also have a set of mounted engraved F1 gear cogs from McLaren, Renault and Toyota which were very popular

 

[horgantrevor]

post a few pictures i would like to see some i always like the f1 engine bits they come up some time and im always tempted

 

[flango]

post a few pictures i would like to see some i always like the f1 engine bits they come up some time and im always tempted

Will do when I'm back home this weekend

 

[A210AMG]

So this doesn't look cool

I would quite happily have that on display

This is cool also, if I was single that would be in my house

 

[nick mercedes]

So this doesn't look cool

They're only cool if you like motorsport.

The risk is that the clients don't, and see a mounted piston as a piece of scrap on a plinth...

 

[balge]

Used to use scrap pistons etc polished up as prizes at rallies and so forth, polished up really well they look a treat and cost nothing...way back when scrappies used to strip vehicles for usable spares.....

Even people who don't recognise a piston will see a finely machined, highly polished 'knick-knack' and generally rush up going 'Ooooh, shiney, shiney!'

I would have thought a genuine F1 racer piston would have gone for more than that, even scrap ?

cheers

 

[finisterre]

how about a nicely bound collection of sadomasochistic homo-erotic photos?


A piston is a bit obvious.

 

[markjay]

Some years a go it was common to re-use old pistons as ashtrays... not very PC nowadays though.

 

[prprandall51]

I once saw a photo in a magazine of a pasta machine that Ettore Bugatti had had his workshop make for him fron the piston of a Type 35 (IIRC). That was a thing of beauty and a great use of a car piston.

 

[Scott_F]

.........if I was single that would be in my house

I think that's the important point. This sort of thing is OK for single blokes or for your garage / workshop but otherwise they are best put away with your old dinky toys and Meccano set.

 

[Charles Morgan]

As part of my move I cleared out the box containing most of the deal gifts I had received in my city career. Expensive tacky dust collecting junk that should have been binned years ago. I once bought a client a WWI German infantry helmet, whose spike you could remove if you needed to strike your grenade, a useful feature for an electricity industry FD, thank heavens he was very drunk when he got it. I was sober though when I bought it.

A colleague arranged Hermes ties as deal gifts so he never had to buy a tie. Mine invariably ended up with a soup or gravy stain, but a few survive.

Now a pasta machine would be a great idea.

 

[horgantrevor]

the v8 engine block on top gear is a table and its nice i have always like that piece

 

[corned]

Back in my past, the local Jaguar club chapter had a trophy which was made from a piston/conrod from one of the Le Mans winning D-Types in the '50s. Made a nice trophy.

They also had a 'wooden spoon' trophy which was a piston/conrod from a Staffordshire Police V8 Discovery, which had come through the crankcase side - complete with two valve heads embedded in the crown, and S-shaped conrod...

 

[Scott_F]

the v8 engine block on top gear is a table and its nice i have always like that piece

It's a V12.

 

[prprandall51]

It's a V12.

I understood it was the block from Porsche 928 - that makes it a V8 (if I am right)

 

[prprandall51]

I understood it was the block from Porsche 928 - that makes it a V8 (if I am right)

Well, I am wrong. Google images clearly show a V12.