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mdw471:
Hello All!

Before I started asking a bunch of questions, thought I would mention something that i hadn't seen many posts about....

bugle charge.....ceramic coatings

http://www.swaintech.com

this is just one of the many many different sources for ceramic coatings, but they have a great website! product explainations and prices are listed

the first time i saw this stuff was with aircooled road race yamahas in ahrma...the ceramic helps the stock motor deal with the heat much more efficiently!! the top of the piston and the inside of the dome are coated.

the pistons came directly from the motor tuner, so i don't know where he had it done, but swaintech seems to have a good reputation.

with proper squish and compresion, it really made a difference...both in performance and longevity!

jus trying to start out on a positive foot, before the onrush of KX500 questions!!

Mark

Friar-Tuck:
MDW,
 I have been wondering the same things, another Idea crossed my mind.
What about the diamondlike coating (TiN) and the like for the tranny and bearings.
 Unfortunately the lack of funds have kept all this to nothing more than bench racing. :-(
Tuck \o/

mdw471:
Hey Tuck

Sorry for the delay in this reply, i was at the local wisconsin supermoto races with Sperbikers2

Like everybdoy, I try not to waste tooo much money on trying things, but the cost of coating the piston and head is cheap. especially when you consider that the price isn't that much different than a new top end kit

it is a real pain if you have already cut the squish....maybe impossible

i don't know about the return on coating the trans, sorta seems like hitech for the sake of hitech. really cool but way out of my league! i really like the fact that the ceramic greatly increses my chance of completeing a weekend without a mechanical!!!

what do you think stewart and doordie??

or am i talking about something that i shouldn't be ?!?

Mark

maddoggy:
i had a friend mention this coating to me about a year ago, but at the time i didn't give it much thought. since then i learned that the guy who pioneered it tested it and leaned the engine out so much that he found peak dynoed power. he countinued leaning it out til it started losing horsepower, which would normally burn the thing to the ground. i believe the internal eng. temps were around 1200 deg. I know it sounds like bull but its not. the coated components held up with little to no damage done at all. I wish i had fact to post but i will try to research the subject and post the findings or maybe a link to info. MADDOGGY

maddoggy:
mdw471, did you have this done to one of your own engines and if so did you see any performance related benefits besides longevity of the components? thanks, MADDOGGY

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