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SubjectPistons |
EditorH-P HOMMES |
Date© 2013 h-p hommes |
There are still people who pay a lot of money for original
pistons. I do not.
The piston technology of the 30s is generations back and that in all respects.
Neither type of construction nor material is comparable to today's piston.
Today's pistons are made of a special material and are not
simply cast from light metal. They have a deaxially arranged piston pin, cast-in
steel rings and special oil scraper rings and compression rings. The lower ring
- as normal at the BMW R75 - has long disappeared as unnecessary.
It is therefore somewhat surprising that some one always comes up with the idea
to recreate piston in a primitive way.
It is amazing what people come up with. We were offered
such a replica. At first glance it looks like the original piston of a BMW R75.
We looked at it closer and realized that it was cast in a topflight light
metal.
Without a deaxial piston pin, without steel rings inside and with
extremely wide piston rings.
There is a lot of friction with wide piston rings.
For this, the bars between the rings are kept pretty narrow.
A great design, but
I do not want to install it.
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Our pistons were especially produced for our company in a large piston company that produces pistons for cars and motorcycles and also the piston rings are a quality product (Made in Germany) and not made of cast steel.
A special treat gave me a discussion about pistons at a meeting in Brisighella.
Zündapp driver:
Your Zündapp is really doing well going up the mountain. I could not tag
along. Do you also have the 30 hp Tatra pistons?
----Me: No what kind of pistons do your mean?
Zündapp driver:
They have 30 HP. I got them mounted from somebody (forgot the name though).
Me:
Do they have different dimensions, higher compression or something?
Zündapp driver:
No no ist is all like original. But they perform 30 HP!
Me:
And the earth is a disk, you believe it when you have been told only long
enough
Oh, what should we talk until we are blue in the face. Everyone wants to make his own experience and life experience costs sometimes. One also has the advantage that one gets to know one's bike better and better by frequently changing parts. Whether one likes it therefore also more, I can not say.
The pistons manufactured by us today are the same as the ones used in car engines today, eccentric pistons
Here is a short scheme to mount them properly.
Memory hook: Rechts ist die Schrift lesbar = Richtig ( to the right the writing is readable = correct)
If you would fold up the pistons, as in an in-line-engine, then the writing
of both pistons shows to the same side (right)
verything clear?
Zündapp KS 750 We have the good pistons! in the dimensions 75,0 mm, 75,5 mm and 76,0 mm (für sleeve bearing connecting rods)
BMW R75 In the dimensions 77,0 mm 77,5mm 78,0 mm 78,5 mm 79,0 mm ( Our new cylinders start with 77,0 mm)
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