SEMA 2011: Wiseco To Unveil Junkyard Dog Series Forged Pistons

Now-a-days when you visit a car show you can’t help but see some type of LS conversion. One of the popular avenues is to go to a local junkyard or recycling yard and hunt out a trucks LS engine. They are affordable, have great durability, and offer a great starting point for any build. The majority of the time these builds are very budget conscious and are well planned out, because they have to be. They are budget-minded builds.

A popular choice is to outfit these engines with a forged piston that is capable of handling a bolt on supercharger or turbo. But the costs of these pistons can usually set a build back quite a few paychecks. But now these style builds have another option new for 2012 from Wiseco ^[1]. The new Junkyard Dog Series Forged Pistons are available for the 5.3 and 6.0L LS motors and will offer quite the savings.

^[2]“Essentially what we would like to do is offer a piston for the guy that wants to take an old engine from the recycling yard in the 5.3 or 6.0L applications, and we’re going to be offering a 9-1 and 11-1 compression ratios,”Vic Ellinger of Wiseco told us. “This will allow someone to retrofit the application with a forged piston that will be capable to support a turbo, supercharged, or nitrous system, as well as the naturally aspirated application.”

These pistons will retail for somewhere near $800 for the entire set, and will be available very soon. You can tell in the video there is a lot of more options avaiable for 2012 beyond the Junkyard Series pistons. For more infomation on every piston Wiseco offers make sure you visit Wiseco.com ^[1]