The engine was built up with forged Mahle pistons and forged Pro Engineering rods, all new bearings, seals, gaskets, plus miscellaneous other little upgrades
Not true, many VW 4cyls came with forged cranks and pistons, the slugs in my TT are Mahle and known to handle over 400hp easily, the only things you need for a 1.8T to be basically bulletproof are forged rods and a new timing belt kit.
Ya, I recommend Mahle's for most builds. In fact we like them so much that we had a some custom made on a heavier duty forging, with a heavier duty wrist pin- so we can use them on bigger power builds then the standard PowerPak pistons which are actually somewhat light duty.
get a set of mahle 4032 alloy pistons unless you're going for very high power levels. you'll barely hear bad things from 2618 alloy piston owners, but 2618's have been known to piston-slap on cold starts, depending on the tolerances of the build.
the stock pistons are REALLY strong, the best piece of hardware you can get on a race engine is Mahle, the stockers are Mahle and forged...
those Mahle pistons are badass i wish I could afford a set i'd be drivin a 2.0t already
The AEB's you supplied for my first motor held up fine for 50K+ miles. And the definitely saw 8K more than a few times.
I'll stick with the $200 Mahles.
I already have a set of 83mm Mahle's for a 9A (20mm piston pin) and I'd like to use them since I feel my ABA block needs a cleanup job.
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