Carbon pistons?.

[Roger Heflin]

On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Bruce Plecan wrote:

> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Benjamin Marsh <bmarsh at turing.une.edu.au>
> To: diy_efi at efi332.eng.ohio-state.edu <diy_efi at efi332.eng.ohio-state.edu>
> Cc: DIY_EFI <DIY_EFI at efi332.eng.ohio-state.edu>
> Date: Friday, January 22, 1999 8:20 AM
> Subject: Re: Carbon pistons?.
> 
> Key word would normally be Carbon Fiber, what messes that up is
> licensed by NASA.
>   Take the zip code of somewhere in LA, 2x and add your next three 
> birthdays ages to it.  That should al least cover one,,,,
> Bruce
> 
> 

I don't think those pistons are carbon fiber.  They would almost have
to be a single cast piece of some sort.   I don't know how you would
do that with carbon, but that must be it.  Carbon fiber work is pretty
common (there is actually a operating plant about 200-300 meters away
from where I work making large amounts of carbon fiber).   I guess
they could have a process for putting together carbon fibre and then
running some process against it to solidify it together.  I expect we
are talking about thousands per piston though, but they would be
nitrous/blower/knock proof.

				Roger