Ceramic Coatings and EGT

Shannen Durphey shannen at grolen.com
Tue Mar 23 02:14:17 GMT 1999


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Shannen

Darryl Snover wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> This talk of ceramic coating sounds really interesting, but where would I
> find more information about this type of thing, as well as who in my area
> (Easton, PA) would do this?  It really sounds like the ticket for turbo
> engines.
> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> Darryl Snover
> 
> 1980 Porsche 924 Turbo (with diy-efi augmentation ;-)
> 
> >All the heat NOT absorbed by the piston, valve, and head (and therefore
> >the cooling system) is doing one of 2 things. It is producing more power
> >(which you want - that's why you coated the engine) and going out the
> >exhaust (which is normal - 30% normally goes out the pipe).
> >If half of the heat that normally went to the cooling system stayed in
> >the engine, and half of what does not go to the cooling system turned to
> >power you would have a 7% increase in power, more or less, and the same
> >increase in exhaust heat-loss. If you get less than 7% more power in
> >this case, you would get more than 7% increase in exhaust heatloss




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