Why pistons burst, or what is the danger of engine tuning
- August 12, 2023
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No matter how convenient and practical the car was at first, after a few years in Russia it begins to receive mandatory improvements and improvements – tuning. It
No matter how convenient and practical the car was at first, after a few years in Russia it begins to receive mandatory improvements and improvements – tuning. It all starts small – a radio recorder, loudspeakers, little things from a Chinese flea market – and then comes the turn of a difficult technical experiment, which usually ends very, very sadly.
Oh, these “homemade” domestic left-handers of all stripes and calibers! As soon as a car falls into their hands, ideas and plans to improve it begin. And it would be good for the exterior – spoilers, removal of chrome, musical notes do not affect the technical component. But this is just the beginning. In the process of “improving”, when fuel is added to the fire by our brand “faster, higher, stronger”, hands reach the technical component. And then there are sometimes fatal improvements. How many? To complete destruction. For example, before the constructive death of the pistons. Oddly enough, it is not difficult to achieve such an “impressive” effect.
So you have to fly “civilian”, inconspicuous vehicles in the style of sports cars. We read on the Internet, where every second writes about the low level of efficiency of standard motors, we try to figure out how to increase this efficiency. The easiest way is to increase the amount of the mixture by installing a more powerful pump and, of course, more efficient nozzles, which are often selected simply by landing.
Doing this today is no harder than finding the answer to a crossword puzzle. We put in stronger “forces”, a pump, remove the “ecology”, flash the “brains” and get a temporary influx of forces. Perceptible, but unfortunately temporary, because the “offal” of the internal combustion engine is simply not designed for such a boost.
Had the sufferer decided to read the theory a little further, he would probably have learned that sports cars, whose engines are designed for high power and high performance, contain completely different elements. The engines may look the same, but the insides are different. There, the same pistons are forged, designed for heavy loads and high temperatures in the combustion chamber. They can withstand new loads, but regular loads will just burst and spread through the engine, grinding everything in its path.
Especially if we are not talking about engines from the 1990s, the lion’s share of which was developed in the 1970s and tested in the 1980s, but about modern, fragile, like a butterfly wing, engines that cannot even withstand regular use in the city. Which injection? Which turbines?
Extra power will only lead to the structural death of the power unit and subsequent costly repairs. Recall that in Russia the engine is a numbered unit, verified at registration. So experimenting with it is an invaluable pleasure in any sense of the word, which you should agree to only after carefully considering and counting everything.
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Oh, these “homemade” domestic left-handers of all stripes and calibers! As soon as a car falls into their hands, ideas and plans to improve it begin. And it would be good for the exterior – spoilers, removal of chrome, musical notes do not affect the technical component. But this is just the beginning. In the process of “improving”, when fuel is added to the fire by our brand “faster, higher, stronger”, hands reach the technical component. And then there are sometimes fatal improvements. How many? To complete destruction. For example, before the constructive death of the pistons. Oddly enough, it is not difficult to achieve such an “impressive” effect.
So you have to fly “civilian”, inconspicuous vehicles in the style of sports cars. We read on the Internet, where every second writes about the low level of efficiency of standard motors, we try to figure out how to increase this efficiency. The easiest way is to increase the amount of the mixture by installing a more powerful pump and, of course, more efficient nozzles, which are often selected simply by landing.
Doing this today is no harder than finding the answer to a crossword puzzle. We put in stronger “forces”, a pump, remove the “ecology”, flash the “brains” and get a temporary influx of forces. Perceptible, but unfortunately temporary, because the “offal” of the internal combustion engine is simply not designed for such a boost.
Had the sufferer decided to read the theory a little further, he would probably have learned that sports cars, whose engines are designed for high power and high performance, contain completely different elements. The engines may look the same, but the insides are different. There, the same pistons are forged, designed for heavy loads and high temperatures in the combustion chamber. They can withstand new loads, but regular loads will just burst and spread through the engine, grinding everything in its path.
Especially if we are not talking about engines from the 1990s, the lion’s share of which was developed in the 1970s and tested in the 1980s, but about modern, fragile, like a butterfly wing, engines that cannot even withstand regular use in the city. Which injection? Which turbines?
Extra power will only lead to the structural death of the power unit and subsequent costly repairs. Recall that in Russia the engine is a numbered unit, verified at registration. So experimenting with it is an invaluable pleasure in any sense of the word, which you should agree to only after carefully considering and counting everything.
Source: Avto Vzglyad
Donald Salinas is an experienced automobile journalist and writer for Div Bracket. He brings his readers the latest news and developments from the world of automobiles, offering a unique and knowledgeable perspective on the latest trends and innovations in the automotive industry.
