Yes, Egge Machine does cast and machine all of their pistons. A piston made by Egge in the 80's I could see how a piston with .006 runout from wrist pin to top could have gotten through inspection as back in the 80's Egge did not realy have a quality inspection. Every piston that Egge makes today has to make it through a quality inspection. The tolerance for the wrist pin paralelism has to be less than .002 or the piston is rejected.Every step in the manufacturing of a piston is inspected and must meet all tolernces or they are rejected. All of the materials & machines used to make a piston today are better than anything Egge had back in the 80's. The reason the V8 Packard pistons do not have a steel strut is that the mold used for this piston can not use a steel strut. As long as you used Egge's recommended clearance (.0025 to .003)you will not have problems.

The Dura Bond, made in USA bearings would have PA6-1, PA6-2, PA6-3, PA6-4 & PA6-5. Unfortunately the only rod bearings available for the V8's are the made in Taiwan bearings.

Egge's Packard V8 cam bearings are American made Dura Bond cam bearings. The part number is PA-6.

Your'e correct, the 288 is 3 1/2 bore.

Everyone seems to have a problem "not trusting" Egge pistons. And later noted that they would have to be fit with .003 to .0035 clearance. Egge recommends a clearance of .0025 to .003 on their V8 pistons. Why would someone install pistons with a different clearance than what the manufacturer reccomends? I would like to here why Egge pistons can not be "trusted".

All of Egge's pistons for the 3 1/2 bore 282 and 327 engines are of the steel strutted design. Kanter does buy both the 3 1/2 and the Packard V8 pistons from Egge. If anyone has had problems with Egge pistons I would love to hear about it. The only way problems can be fixed is to know what the problems are.