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Old 10-28-2009, 08:15 PM   #321
ShnOmac


 
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It does sound cool.... the funny thing is a GM engineer was talking about it in a article (he didnt want to be named). Maybe the future of things to come! Would be very cool to see that technology trickle down to cars!

"A General Motors Corp. engineer who did not want to be identified said that fuel trapped in the crevice between the crown and top sealing ring of a conventional piston and the cylinder wall does not burn and gets blown out with each stroke, thus making it a major contributor to hydrocarbon pollution. A carbon-carbon piston placed inside a carbon-carbon cylinder sleeve might operate with virtually no gap, substantially diminishing this environmental problem."
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