Definitely get an advancing of peak cylinder pressures with water meth, the more meth in the ratio the more advance. It is a bad thing if already pushing the limits, this is why I don’t have advanced timing while running water meth, also running lower comp. Not sure if you follow Gale Banks or not, have a watch of his video on water meth testing with live readings of cylinder pressures. Long video but worth a watch a few times, particularly the data on peak cylinder pressure. As far as I know no one has done anything to the same level of detail with water meth.
https://youtu.be/k0oWISH5eT8I’ll have a look into hard anodising. I’ve not had any issues with ceramic coming off on mine nor piston melting activities

, but I am planning to push things a lot harder with the inline pump and surface hardening can only help. Also good to know the cheaper pistons are holding, that’s my biggest fear of running the aftermarket pistons.