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: 414ci Stroker Pistons!!


Andy
08-02-2011, 05:40 PM
These are for StuntXXvegas and his 414ci Longblock. More info on the Hard-anodizing.

A street-driven nitrous-fed or supercharged engine needs the hard coat more than a competition engine because the combustion process expands from the few seconds of a quarter-mile run to hours of street use. Diamond hard-anodizes the entire piston and then moly-coats the skirt. The moly-coat wouldn’t be necessary in a drag race application, but it is genuine insurance for a street engine.

Piston rings exposed to high temperatures can become micro-welded to their ring grooves. The Type 3 aluminum oxide anodizing (technically a ceramic) provides a heat barrier, which insulates the piston. The hard-coating is approximately .002-inch thick. It penetrates the surface of the piston .001-inch and builds out another .001-inch, therefore machining allowances must be made to accommodate the thickness of the application. This hard-anodizing possesses a surface finish approaching 70-Rockwell hardness and protects pistons against excessive combustion heat, detonation damage, and skirt wear—an absolute necessity in nitrous and supercharged applications.

The Rockwell scale is based on the indentation hardness of a material. The Rockwell hardness test method consists of indenting the test material with a diamond cone or hardened steel ball indenter. In the scheme of things, a hardness of 70 Rockwell is somewhere in the middle of the scale.

As hard-anodizing gives the piston a protective coat that reduces wear and insulates it from heat, it also provides an excellent surface to apply Diamond’s moly skirt coating for even better performance.


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Also, your crank/rods came in today also so as soon as the 20 blocks come in from Arrow (Friday), we can build this and ship it out.

Blown-WK
08-02-2011, 06:18 PM
Very nice. I like how thick the top ring land is. Those things are begging for boost.

StuntXXvegas
08-02-2011, 10:11 PM
Andy!
thanks for the Update!
those look real nice!
i like to coating!
this is was spec'd for Boost, Twin Turbos.....:D (kit):eek:

i cant wait...well i can.. SHOULD be fun!