NEW Piston skirt coatings promise significant reduction in engine friction. The piston skirt and pin account for about 17 percent of the frictional loss in a combustion engine, two new-generation coatings that are claimed to reduce this friction by up to 15 percent .
http://www.gizmag.com/federal-mogul-piston-coating/42594/
>>14762295
Why do we keep improving outdated mechanics?
Can't we just move on from combustion engines yet?
Now that's a aftermarket thing I can get behind.
This should allow for higher revs, no?
Engineers have attempted to overcome the friction losses at the skirt and pin by optimizing the geometry of the piston's clearances and, more recently, by utilizing advanced coatings on the cylinder wall and piston skirt. Each advance has meant improvements in engine longevity, fuel economy, and power output. Federal-Mogul Powertrains says that its latest EcoTough coatings for gasoline and diesel engines take this a step further, reducing skirt wear in a gasoline engine by up to 40 percent compared to today's market standard.
The coating is a metal oxide-reinforced resin with embedded solid lubricant particles. It's applied in a thickness of 15 microns to the piston's skirt surface. It delivers up to 15 percent friction reduction compared to standard coatings, Federal-Mogul says, which directly improves base engine efficiency.
>>14762302
No. Combust or die trying!
![mazda-rx8-renesis-wankel-rotary-engine[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/4oKXoNr.jpg "mazda-rx8-renesis-wankel-rotary-engine[1].jpg")
rotaries coated with this shit when?
>>14762302
Why fix whats not broken?
>>14762310
t. cuck
>>14762306
So babbit? Like NG compressors ?
>>14762312
no point mate, they will always be shit
>>14762312
My thoughts too/O/
>>14762303
not really
>>14762335
piston cucks need not to apply
>>14762316
Innovation.
>why drive car when we have horses?
>why invent plane when we have come so far without one?
>why change phone from Morse code tap machine into handheld computer?
>>14762303
yes
>>14762342
you're retarded
>>14762316
>>14762357
>Rekt
http://media.federalmogul.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=251259&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=2151720#.VwATV0rital
>>14762357
Electric is not any faster/convenient/easier to produce and the reason why the climate is changing is more caused by Power plant and industrial pollution than what cars are doing.
You add more electrical demand you'll only increase emissions unless there's a fundamental change in how we produce power.
Electrics had their chance at the beginning of the 20th century and failed.
>>14762383
>Electrics had their chance at the beginning of the 20th century and failed.
you don't get to decide how many chances a technology gets to catch on.
>>14762383
you are retarded
>>14762390
Oh so you're ruling steam power out too huh?
>>14762394
who am i to rule anything out?
>>14762383
>assumes I was talking about electric
Oh, anon.
>>14762295
I worked at one of their sites about 10 years ago.
Full of qts in lab coats.
>>14762302
It wont happen any time soon.
IC engines will be with us for many more decades yet.
Also, IC engines are cool.
Much better than some boring electrical motor.
>>14762458
Idk senpai. Fuel cells are pretty dope.
>>14762458
>muh feels
>>14762302
>Why do we keep improving outdated mechanics?
>Can't we just move on from combustion engines yet?
Go ahead. Let us know how your move works out.
>>14762374
No, you
>>14762915
Hydrogen worked pretty well.
>>14762925
stop pretending to be me
>>14763102
yeah i keep seeing them h2 cars everywhere.
and the filling stations... don't get me started!
>>14763123
Do you see electric charging stations anywhere other than Tesla's own network they've spent countless millions on?
![270620111475[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/irl6uXC.jpg "270620111475[1].jpg")
>>14763156
sure
>>14763123
>filling stations
Why would you need a filling station when you can refine your own from water?
>>14762295
Is that a reduction of 15% of the total friction, or 15% of the 17%?
>>14762418
You know of some way to power a car that isn't electricity or combustion?
>>14762302
fuck off /g/
So what happens when the coating wears off? is it another wear item to be replaced or what?
>>14763349
What happens when your current pistons and cylinders are worn?
>>14763373
you get clucked by physics
![DSC_1940[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/d27tQ6v.jpg "DSC_1940[1].jpg")
>>14763342
50/50 assmad/butthurt blend
>>14763422
Hwat the fuck happened to that car?
Is this that ironic shit hipster faggots are always clucking about?
>>14762302
Because you need several hundred tons of batteries and weeks of charging to store enough charge to deliver one large load with a big truck.
Not to mention couriers, delivery drivers, tradesmen, anyone else who uses their vehicle for more than getting to their art history course.
>>14763634
>weeks of charging to store enough charge to deliver one large load
I only have to wait a couple days then my load is huge.
Is it the same titanium nitride coating they use for coated drill bits?
>>14762303
RPM is generally limited by either the valvetrain or the strength of the connecting rods.
>mechanical efficiency is ~90%, so friction accounts for about a 10% hp loss
>the piston skirts make 17% of that
>this reduces that friction by 15%
literally a 0.255% difference in power
>>14763757
so say, up from 400hp to 401hp?
>>14763715
Or oil pump
Or crank weight
Or piston weight
Or rod weight
Or piston stroke
