What can cause this piston crack? If you cant see well there is a crack on the side of the piston between the first 2 rings, and a piece came off. Fortunately it didnt came off the piston and made no damage to the cylinder. It just had no compression and very much smoke came out of the breather. The engine is a vg30det, cima single turbo. I just had my new poncams fitted and i raised the pressure to 1.5 bar(21 psi). Single turbo precision pte5857 billet. I'm guessing it around 450 hp. So this the limit of the det pistons????