Ceramic engines... idea in the making..

[stolichnya]

I am currently investigating the manufactur of a ceramic engine. I am looking for any information form you bloggers if they can point me toward someone in the UK, that has and is using one.

Thanks, look forward to the replies.
Nick

[deltafox]

Bloggers? Here? Does Ted know?.....

[stolichnya]

lol, ok so maybe not bloggers .

but any advice further is still wanted

[Annodomini2]

I am aware they have been done before, rover in the early eighties..? (no links sorry)

But while it is entirely possible to build a ceramic engine there were too many issues with creating a production viable solution. (Too expensive to make)

[JonRB]

Kaneda's bike in Akira had a ceramic engine.

[stolichnya]

true Kaneda's bike engine was made from ceramic, wow i cant beleive there is someone else who has seen it.
cool

[Annodomini2]

The Akira bike is electric.

[stolichnya]

i came across this link on the web.

www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/1614/ceramic.html?200526

as to the cost associated to manufacuring the engine, i would be interested to hear of the prices, surely cant be more than 2000 quid for a engine block for a 4 cylinder. As yet i have been unable to find anything worthwhile.

[nel]

For what it's worth I recall reading research work on ceramic engines that seemed very positive except for one thing - the ability of the ceramic blocks to attenuate the noise of the explosions in the cylinders was found to be very poor compared to conventional cast iron or alloy blocks.

[stolichnya]

thanks nel, i am still doing much research relate to this. in due time i suppose i will find a company that does this, other than those do that do cylinder rebores and repsprays using ceramic based liquid injecting. i will keep the forum posted.

[sumplug]

fuji industries have diesel engines in their trucks with plenty of ceramic bits.ford displayed an engine about 5yrs ago at geniva.nothing happened.ceramic is a great material to use in an engine!

[JonRB]

Akira bike:


www.sauceruney.com/wp/index.php?p=61

[sumplug]

its something out of judge dread.

[JonRB]

sumplug said:

its something out of judge dread.

Errrrr, no. It's something out of Akira.