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SPECIAL PISTION SERVICES
Special Piston Services is a Victoria based company located in Melbourne. We manufacture high performance forged pistons specialising in Racing, marine, vintage and motorcycles. SPS pistons suit many applications, we focus on maintaining and continuing to provide the highest quality pistons.
All SPS pistons are custom made to suit our customer’s needs and requirements. For over 30 years we have always strived to continually develop and maintain our high quality and workmanship. Combined with our highly skilled engineers, hi-tech CNC machinery and many years of experience and knowledge in this field, SPS pistons are second to none manufactured in Australia




ABOUT US
Special Piston Services began in the 1970’s when John Patterson, formally of Repco Research, could not buy pistons to suit his Race boat. He decided to make his own, using materials supplied from the United States of America to manufacture his own pistons local to Victoria. Many things have changed and much has been learnt along the way from working with leading touring car teams with Cosworth Sierra’s and V8 Falcons through to Bate’s Australian rally car team til now with the university’s alternate fuels program.
Special Piston Services manufacture’s high performance forged pistons using knowledge from 30 years of experience to provide the best pistons specialised for Racing, marine, vintage and motorcycles. SPS pistons suite many applications. We focus on maintaining and continuing to provide the highest quality pistons in Australia. All pistons are made to our customer’s requirements and needs. For over 30 years we have always strived to continually develop and maintain our high quality and workmanship. Combined with our highly skilled engineers, hi-tech CNC machinery and many years of experience and knowledge in this field, our pistons are second to none manufactured in Australia.


SERVICES
We supply ringsets and round wire circlips to suit all SPS pistons from leading ring manufacturers. Special Piston Services also offer specialised machining of customer pistons to help you obtain the best available to suit your needs.
Alterations
- Forged pistons made to order
- Piston Resizing
- Gas porting
- Re-machining valve pockets
- Piston dome alterations
- Piston pin fitting
- Circlip groove machining
- And many other piston modifications
Coatings
We can also supply thermal barrier coatings ceramic on the piston crowns and dry film skirt coatings on the piston skirt to help reduce friction and scuffing.

RACING
All our pistons are custom manufactured using race series 2618 T6 forging then machined to requirements for all applications from naturally aspirated, turbo charged and supercharged engines.

Alfa | Alvis | Austin Martin |
Austin Wealey | BDA | Bentley |
BMW | Bugatti | Chrysler |
Cosworth | Daihatsu | Datsun |
Ferrari | Fiat | Ford |
Golf | Holden | Honda |
Hyundai | Jaguar | KIA |
Lagonda | Lamborghini | Lancia |
Lotus | Mercedes | MG |
Mitsubishi | Nissan | Peugot |
Porsche | Rambler | Reiley |
Renault | Repco Brabham | Rolls Royce |
Rover | Saab | Subaru |
Suzuki | Toyota | Toyota |
Vauxhall | Volvo | VW |
Wolsley | Yamaha |

BIKE
We can also supply thermal barrier coatings ceramic on the piston crowns and dry film skirt coatings on the piston skirt to help reduce friction and scuffing.
Aermacchi | AJS Motorcycles | Ariel Motorcycles |
Benelli | BMW | BSA Motorcycles |
Donglas | Ducatti | Enfield |
G50 Matchless | Harley Davidson | Honda |
Indian | Jap | Jawa |
KTT | Manx Norton | Miller |
Moto Guzzi | Suzuki | Triumph |
Vellocette | Vincent | Weslake |
Yamaha |
