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Message: [QUOTE="jmics19067, post: 566591, member: 27963"] RCannon, actually there is a lot more to the lock up of parts than that. Believe it or not due to corporate contracts and stuff you can specify that noone can sell something that you are paying the exclusive rights for. For instance if you went to General Motors to buy an engine no problem plunk down your money, but if they happen to ask you what it was for and you say for a Hyster forklift,GM cannot sell it to you.Since Hyster owns all exclusive rights for anything that is related to Hyster. Same short block just that how the contract is stated you have to wait till GM sells the engine to Hyster so THEY can sell it to you . It doesn't really have to be a specific design just a specific contract. It could easily be an existing design piston that whomever locked up thru contracts for their specific application. You can go to Wiseco and say I need a piston of such and such design for a specific application and they will tell you you have to buy it from the company that locked it up,but if you go there telling them I need a piston of such and such shape to use as a paperwieght they can sell it to you. Of course you also have the possibility that presumably Power Max<the believed company at this time right?> bought a bunch of existing pistons that where close in design and than modified them slightly to work for their specific design. Rendering a stock design piston useless recquiring an availability lock to prevent future liability issues. [/QUOTE]

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