Since aluminum is the topic of the moment, I do believe I had some TRW
forged aluminum pistons installed as part of the rebuild of my 440 c.i. V8.
They would take some heat, wouldn't they?
Brian
From: Bill Gallagher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: [MBZ] MELT?
Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2006 21:03:30 -0500
I don't know about alloys, but I think the melting point will be much
higher i.e. Al pistons. Al is good transfer of heat/cold
Land Rover have Al body but the engine firewall is made out of steel
to protect from fire ...
Next time in a junk yard, look at the melted/deformed Al parts of a
car in a fire......of course, water cools the heads and others, but a
car fire, nothing to cool the part, will melt/deform under the high heat
....
Bill
1981 300 TD
David Brodbeck wrote:
> Bill Gallagher wrote:
>
>> Al has a melting point of about 1220F ......
>>
>
> Isn't the melting point of some alloys higher?
>
> There are certainly a lot of engines, both diesel and gasoline, running
> around with aluminum heads that haven't melted down.
>
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