I bet it will. I think I mentioned this before, but I did that with a 50cc
Grand prix bike engine about 30 years ago--a Kriedler. Compounded my own
coating. Melted the first piston I tried to coat. Good thing it was a junk
one. We wound up running the engine reliably with a very lean mix and signs
of detonation. Gave us about three more horsepower on the rear wheel dyno we
did our testing on. Any racer would sell their Mom for three horsepower with
a fifty cc motor. Unfortunately there's a difference between dyno horsepower
and race track performance. We didn't get it figured out quickly enough and
switched back to a more conventional setup for the rest of the season. The
next year the rider moved up to 125cc and I moved to Oregon. She should have
stuck with 50cc--crashed badly in the middle of the season. I don't think
she's been back on a bike. Wonderful girl, brave racer.
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-fot@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-fot@autox.team.net] On Behalf
Of kas kastner
Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 5:45 PM
To: Gt6steve@aol.com; oldskooling@yahoo.com; fot@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Intake manifold ... ceramic coatings
If you want to do something that will pays off, coat the piston tops and the
combustion chambers so that they retain the heat of combustion....that
works.
----- Original Message -----
From: Gt6steve@aol.com
To: oldskooling@yahoo.com ; fot@autox.team.net
Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 5:02 PM
Subject: Re: Intake manifold ... ceramic coatings
I would like to affirm that this hair brained scheme will do absolutely
nothing to improve the performance of my competitors and I encourage all
Vintage
racers to avoid this Voodoo science. Having applied the same to my
manifolds
I want all of you guys to save your money and not do the things I do.
Any
perceived horsepower gains were clearly from something else and I say
don't do
it.
And ignore the man behind the curtain!
Tongue in cheek, Steve
After reading some articles on thermal management, especially in regards
to
ceramic coatings, I couldn't help but notice the V8 guys are making quite
a
few more ponies when coating the bottom of the intake runners and the
valley
plate. Obviously they're keeping heat out of the intake runners making
for a
denser and much cooler charge. A quick look at a Triumph's set up and I
can't
help but think coating at least the bottom of the half of the intake
manifold
would make for even better results being that the exhuast manifold is
right
there. I know some of you run heat sheilds that go up along the bottom
side
of the intake manifold, but I would think ceramic coating would work
better,
and also save weight. Anyone care to share there thoughts on this?
-Bob Adams
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