where to get Piston rings from

[tom o]

had my car in to be looked at as it was going through too much oil, turns out to be piston rings.

problem is the garage is having problems getting hold of any and i was planning on taking the car to nurburgring at the end of next week.

can anyone suggest companies to try and get hold of them?

thanks.

[gadgeroonie]

I suggest the factory or Noble Motorsport

you may have to consider a rebore when it comes apart - i suggest you get it apart first. Is it a 3.0 or 2.5 ?

[tom o]

its already apart.

M400

i am pretty sure they have tried the factory, roush and i think they are trying to get them from motune (?)

[YellowShed]

tom o said:

its already apart.

M400

i am pretty sure they have tried the factory, roush and i think they are trying to get them from motune (?)

That'll be Mountune which is part of Roush.

Trouble with the M400s is that they used Wiseco pistons+ring pack in most of them which mean the rings have to come from them. JNM built all the M400 engines with those pistons in, so they'll be your best bet, I'm guessing.

We use a different brand of piston and ring pack. Who's doing the repair, by the way?

YellowShed

[tom o]

Lakeside Engineering - lotus specialist but have experience with Nobles. one of the owners has had one previously as well.

[mgbond]

tom o said:

Lakeside Engineering - lotus specialist but have experience with Nobles. one of the owners has had one previously as well.

Great guys,

Tim loves to chat and always remebers you and what your upto.

When I changed from the Elise to the Noble I got Max a copy of the service list fro Noble so he could work out a cost. They never got back to me and I ended up at Plans.

Max didn't have his Noble long and ended up sell it for a Prosche (trator ).

Do they do servicing now?

Bondy

[F.C.]

tom o said:

had my car in to be looked at as it was going through too much oil, turns out to be piston rings.

problem is the garage is having problems getting hold of any and i was planning on taking the car to nurburgring at the end of next week.

can anyone suggest companies to try and get hold of them?

thanks.

Eastwood Racing are probably your best bet for anything Wiseco.
[phone] / 662426
I've used them for all my big bore / turbo bike pistons and rings.
F.C.

Edited by F.C. on Monday 8th October 22:38

[tom o]

thanks for that F.C. - will try them tomorrow.

i dont think they have a servicing schedule as such, but i am getting them to do the 24k service as the car is on 22k and in pieces anyway.