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Well I got new pistons, cylinders and rings to replace my holey piston . Yeah everyone tells me that what caused the hole in the piston was a item that fell in or was sucked up. Maybe the crunching noise I heard weeks ago was inside the combustion chamber and not in the fan assembly like I thought. I never mentioned this. Could have been a loose screw or something that got sucked up, I wonder how it got in there, maybe the lack of paper filter coupled with high speed engine suction, something got in . I speculated alot in the last e-mail but will never know for sure. Well what is important is that I am driving it again . The odometer is at 28000 so I can count the miles for this new upper end that includes the headsd, the heads did not need replacing but they were mismatched. The bottom end has around 50000 I guess . The head temps are a little higher than before on the #3 head area but just a tad bit, I think the new parts and the different head (bigger valves , not lawnmower size but still Mexican VW heads). On # 1 head area the temps are colder than the MOFOCO almost stone cold for these cars , I see 200 degrees F alot maybe after ring seating the temps will go lower. I do have all of the cooling flaps installed. The engine idles very slowly in "drive" without missing, I like that , it has good power for new parts , break in period for the top end will be until the rings fully seat. I am very satisfied with this fix but I must make the charging system reliable. LEON MARTINEZ SAN DIEGO AND TIJAUNA ------------------------------------------------------------------- List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org