Piston temperature and horsepower work in tandem. High horsepower engines not only generate more horsepower, they produce more heat. The key to maintaining engine power and integrity is to manage the excess heat.
Those in the high performance game optimize the trade-off between heat and horsepower by specially configuring engine parts such as pistons, valves and chambers. This "art-of-the-game" process includes high-end coatings and coating combinations that contribute to cooler engine operation.
In a perfect world, engine pistons should be cooler on the intake and compression strokes and hotter during the power and exhaust strokes. If the air/fuel mix isn't heated by the piston on the intake stroke, but the piston reflects heat into the combustion chamber on the power stroke, then you're looking at the optimal scenario for engine power and efficiency.
Piston coating is one of the top-line solutions for this ultimate scenario. At Embee Performance, we've developed piston coating combinations that (i) run cooler than non-coated pistons and deliver nominal heat to the air/fuel mixture during the intake stroke and (ii) reflect optimal heat back into the combustion process during the power stroke. Simply, it's easier for the thin, high-tech coat on the piston to change temperatures during multiple engine cycles than for the whole piston to handle the task. The coating can be cooled quickly by relatively little air/fuel mix during the intake stroke, which allows the bulk of the mixture to remain unaffected by the heat until the combustion stroke.
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