Ford 1.0 piston.
next 1 is compared to a Gen II viper piston.
I love the complexity of new piston designs. There's a lot of engineering going on in the combustion chamber these days. What's the compression ratio of that 1.0?
DI pistons are certainly looking more and more like diesel pistons with the combustion chamber in the middle, etc.
I'm a little surprised that that Yamaha piston can get away with having raised letters inside the combustion chamber. I would think that would create swirl or a hotspot or something. (Can you tell I'm not an engineer?) Or maybe at 12,000 rpm there isn't time....
It's funny that engine technology scales up and down so well. These pistons are a meter wide at the ROD.
MrChaos wrote: Ford 1.0 piston. next 1 is compared to a Gen II viper piston.
Is this the Atkinson cycle engine in the C Max?
Our old Ingersol-Rand recip air compressors had 31" low side pistons, piston rings was like a hula-hoop.
The piston on the right looks small. That's a Chevy 454 piston. On the left is the piston out of Sonny Leonard's 1005ci Chevy big block
I like Sonnys' engines. They are awesome, in the sense that they inspire awe.
Regarding motorcycle engines, I recall that a ZX10's engine has a normal bore for a 2 liter engine (about 86mm) but half the stroke. So it has the same valve area/shrouding as an average 2 liter car engine but it has half the displacement to feed. So it makes about the same POWER as an average 2 liter car engine, just RPM-shifted for the reduced torque of a small engine.
Keith Tanner wrote: I love the complexity of new piston designs. There's a lot of engineering going on in the combustion chamber these days. What's the compression ratio of that 1.0?
how true..... you'd be surprised... (maybe not), how many people don't think of the piston as part of the combustion chamber....
That's a mighty big piston. But not big enough for this valve! (took this pic myself...while not holding the phone steady enough)
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