Even with wet liners made of metal?Monstrobolaxa wrote:hummm.....no!
Using carbon fibre reinforced plastics as in the monocoque...isn't viable cause the epoxy resin in the combustion chamber would overheat and "burn".
Using a carbon base like the brake discs and pads wouldn't work either...once again inside the combustion chamber the friction between the piston and the wall...and the heat would wear out the wall and would also oxidize the carbon....
In my opinion it wouldn't work anyway....metal has a very high heat conduction coeficient (don't know the exact name in english) so alot of the heat generated in the combustion chamber would end up reaching the carbon! Probably with metal liners it would reduce the oxidation...manchild wrote:Even with wet liners made of metal?Monstrobolaxa wrote:hummm.....no!
Using carbon fibre reinforced plastics as in the monocoque...isn't viable cause the epoxy resin in the combustion chamber would overheat and "burn".
Using a carbon base like the brake discs and pads wouldn't work either...once again inside the combustion chamber the friction between the piston and the wall...and the heat would wear out the wall and would also oxidize the carbon....
This is correct. Pure carbon Fibre cant be used in this area. However, what can be done is creating a carbon based alloy. We have sucessfully utilised this material in pistons for our model car engines with not only decreased wear rate but also increased power levels. Granted these are only 2.11cc engine but they run on Nitromethanol at over 50k rpm. Compared with convential Aluminium Pistons which last approx 3-4hrs at 43k rpm we are getting over 10hrs running time before any mild wear starts to show. if Utilised into F1 I reckon while being slightly more expensive short term it would give better performance and lower costs long term.Monstrobolaxa wrote:hummm.....no!
Using carbon fibre reinforced plastics as in the monocoque...isn't viable cause the epoxy resin in the combustion chamber would overheat and "burn".
Using a carbon base like the brake discs and pads wouldn't work either...once again inside the combustion chamber the friction between the piston and the wall...and the heat would wear out the wall and would also oxidize the carbon....
Max Mosley's policies are slowly making F1 less technologically advanced than model car racing...Anonymous wrote: what can be done is creating a carbon based alloy. We have sucessfully utilised this material in pistons for our model car engines with not only decreased wear rate but also increased power levels.