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Don’t do this.
You’re supposed to season pistons and rods like you would a cast iron fry pan. I like to use a combination of canola and beef tallow, but a 5W20 works in a pinch.
Remember kids, a happy piston is a varnished piston. Keep those oil rings in place, make sure they’re good and solid!
Can’t tell if serious or not…
Don’t listen to him. Wd40 and kitty litter is what engines love.
Along with bleach in the engine oil to keep it clean
Fool, bleach belongs in the coolant.
Go watch a few engine tear downs by I Do Cars, that will answer all questions, remove all doubts.
All I saw was Sauron
As a mechanic, make sure to use BBQ paint for heat resistance.
Make sure to sand them first with a rough grit or the paint won’t stick. You can also add sugar to your gas tank to make your sick piston paint job super sweet.
Use a pickaxe to add speed holes to your hood, and stick a flaming rag out of your gas cap and you’ve got the recipe for a sweet hot rod.
to be fair it would probably just burn off immediately
only the top is in the burning chamber. The paint will cause friction when the piston should roll veeeery smoothly over the crank and when moving upside down in the cylinder. There are plenty of engine failures in these areas even without paint.
i guess we’d need a sacrificial engine and some paint, but i imagine the combination of heat, chamical stress and friction would just strip it off.
It would either be impossible to assemble or lose 90% of its efficiency in a few cycles after the paint goes away.
Well painting them black makes your car seem kinda sad. If you’d painted them red, that’d given you at least an extra 10-15 HP per piston.
Found the Ork boy
Be fine, as long as they don’t skimp on the waterproofing.
You’ll need a lucite engine block to show off your shiny new pistons.
For guaranteed extra performance, get an apprentice machinist to mill Z3 vents on the tops of the pistons. Less aero drag means pistons reciprocate faster, faster pistons means more powah.
I just pour some steel Shot Peen into a oil filler after an an engine rebuild
