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Ceramic Plating a TS1
Posted: Tue May 05, 2009 2:12 pm
by soulsurfer
Can anyone recommend ceramic plating a TS1 cylinder, are there any benefits over nicasil and who can carry this work out?
Cheers
Re: Ceramic Plating a TS1
Posted: Tue May 05, 2009 2:42 pm
by lozmondo
If you Google 'Apticote 2000' you can see the coating that is generally used. I have had a 200 TS1 and mugello and a 230 TS1 ceramic coated and never had a problem that could be put down to the cylinder coating.
It is supposed to be harder wearing and cooler so in theory it shoul be an improvement on Nicasil.
Hope this helps.
Re: Ceramic Plating a TS1
Posted: Tue May 05, 2009 3:10 pm
by soulsurfer
Cheers Loz, Where did you get yours done?
Re: Ceramic Plating a TS1
Posted: Tue May 05, 2009 3:37 pm
by Ian Hepworth
Aptec do the ceramic coating. They don't like doing TS1 cylinders, especially with bigger than 70mm bore, they have problems with the spigots flaring.
Re: Ceramic Plating a TS1
Posted: Tue May 05, 2009 3:38 pm
by shocky
i pass here 10 times a week
http://www.poeton.co.uk/coatings-motorsport.htm i know harry barlow has his stuff done here as ive taken stuff in for people having it done they will not deal with the public at all like i did you can take it in yourself but all payments go through a dealer or agent the ones i took in were for a 71mm conversion and had nikosil plating
Re: Ceramic Plating a TS1
Posted: Tue May 05, 2009 4:02 pm
by corrado
Re: Ceramic Plating a TS1
Posted: Tue May 05, 2009 6:43 pm
by lozmondo
Poeton did the 200 & Muggy, a mate had an account there as he was in the oil drilling business. The 230 was done through MB when the engine was built.
Re: Ceramic Plating a TS1
Posted: Wed May 06, 2009 10:11 am
by drunkmunkey6969
Someone mentioned to me that a few UK dealers stopped using Aptec a while back, as there were some ongoing problems honing TS1 cylinders, they apparently tried many times to get it right using various methods. I heard that in the end they gave up with the job and a few other dealers started to pull their work out of Aptec as piston to bore clearance were problematic.
These issues maybe cured now, who knows.
Re: Ceramic Plating a TS1
Posted: Wed May 06, 2009 1:19 pm
by soulsurfer
drunkmunkey6969 wrote:Someone mentioned to me that a few UK dealers stopped using Aptec a while back, as there were some ongoing problems honing TS1 cylinders, they apparently tried many times to get it right using various methods. I heard that in the end they gave up with the job and a few other dealers started to pull their work out of Aptec as piston to bore clearance were problematic.
These issues maybe cured now, who knows.
They still mention issues regarding spigots flaring. It would appear that ceramic coating a TS1 cylinder is best avoided
Cheers