[Diy_efi] Venturi effect crankcase breather

Matt Porritt porrittm at anet.co.nz
Sat Jul 12 02:39:13 GMT 2003


Piston design also.. I take it you have seen the pistons with small holes
drilled from the crown down to behind the 1st ring to use combustion
pressure to add ring tension?

On 12/7/03 1:06 AM Shannen at grolen.com wrote

> I'm not a student of ring design.  I do know that we have better designs
> now than the basic square rings of the "old days."  While the old square
> rings didn't have any features to take advantage of gas expansion or
> pressure difference, new rings do.  It doesn't take long when playing
> with a boosted car to realize that you are absolutely correct about the
> importance of pressure difference across the rings.


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