Titanium pins – May 2007

Titanium pins - As part of our weight reduction exercise on the piston kit as a whole we also looked at the wrist-pin. JBS Racing made some prototype Titanium pins and worked with Burnel

University’s DLC department to find an optimum coating for the pin. (http://www.brunel.ac.uk/about/acad/sed/sedres/me/dlc/brief)

 

Diamond-Like-Carbon is a space-age coating technology that is used in F1 and MotoGP engines.

 

 

The Titanium wrist-pins are less than half the weight of their steel equivalents. However we are using Steel wrist pins for most customers and they seem to be working well, Titanium does give a performance improvement but is expensive and not necessary in most cases. These Titanium pins will also fit the KTM engine.

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