Excellent information. Thanks to all who responded to this!
Dick
From: motrv8d@hotmail.com(Gene Holtzclaw)
Date: Thu, Oct 25, 2007, 4:02pm (PDT+7) To:
vance.navarrette@intel.com (Navarrette, Vance), tr6taylor@webtv.net
(Sally or Dick Taylor) Cc: 6pack@autox.team.net Subject: RE: [6pack]
Total seal piston rings
I have a set of these rings, and in laymans terms, they look like a
"slinky" if you have ever held one of those! They just wrap around the
piston several times, and therefore have no real gap.
> Subject: RE: [6pack] Total seal piston rings
> Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 08:55:35 -0700
> From: vance.navarrette@intel.com
> To: tr6taylor@webtv.net
> CC: 6pack@autox.team.net
>
> Dick:
>
> The gapless rings do allow for expansion and yet are gapless,
> that is what is clever about the design. One design works like this
> (this is ASCII artwork showing the two ends of the ring as installed
in
> the piston)
>
>
> ------ -------------
> | |________ Gapless
> |________ |
> ------------- ----------
>
> ------- --------
> | |
> | | Conventional
> ---- -------------
>
> Simply stated, there is a "step" in each tip of the ring. When
> installed in the piston the steps overlap such that there is no open
> path for the exhaust gases, but the tips of the ring are free to slide
> past each other as the ring/piston expand. Very clever. In my ASCII
> artwork above it looks like there is a gap in the vertical direction,
> but in fact there is none.
> Total Seal uses a completely different design, here is the web
> page describing their technology:
>
> http://www.totalseal.com/TechPage.aspx#trGaplessPistRings
>
> Total Seal uses a second ring to seal the gap, rather than the
> stepped ends on a single ring.
>
> Racers like em because they are supposed to give you the extra
> horsepower or two. They don't care about cost, but power and
durability
> are everything. I have no idea how much more the gapless rings cost...
>
> Vance
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-6pack@Autox.Team.Net [mailto:owner-6pack@Autox.Team.Net]
On
> Behalf Of Sally or Dick Taylor
> Sent: October 24, 2007 11:52 PM
> To: Greg Perry
> Cc: 6pack@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: [6pack] Total seal piston rings
>
> Greg---I've seen the Total Seal Piston Ring ads, and wondered how they
> work. The idea of not letting any of the combustion gasses get past
the
> rings sounds like a good idea. Still, we have aluminum pistons in a
cast
> iron block. It would seem that some ring gap is necessary as the
pistons
> and rings expand. I have never tried gaps of less than .010. Too
> chicken.
> Let us know if you get these and how they accomplish this no-gap
setup.
>
> Dick
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