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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wash" data-source="post: 1141546" data-attributes="member: 18190">Sounds great until you run out of meth.Think about it, why spend hundreds on an injection setup, more on windshield wiper fluid and still more on expensive pistons to get to a worse place?What I propose is if your cylinders can clean up with a hone job just re-ring and adjust compression with cylinder heads which will be around the same cost as new pistons, a water/meth injection system and a bunch of wiper fluid.  Then you have exactly the same power potential but you can get there with a milder tune.  Just keep it fat and adjust boost until you get the power you want (while remembering that your stock block can't handle much more than 400 HP).The people who break stock pistons are usually spraying lots of n2o or detonating.  Too much power/rpm gives you cracked blocks and cap walk which forged pistons can't fix.Forged pistons can't fix detonation either, they will just live a bit longer before they die.  They might make sense for n2o but you've still got a stock block hanging over your head which will probably ruin your pistons when it let's go.There is a good chance that a cylinder head gets trashed if your block let's go but if you reduce the risk by running a conservative tune that won't immediately detonate if your meth injection runs dry when you are under boost (clogs can happen to), you are more likely to avoid breaking the block and eventually walk away with an intact set of heads after it wears out or you get tired of limited power.</blockquote>