The Valve Seat Inserts Market is witnessing steady growth as global demand for high-performance, fuel-efficient, and durable ...

The internal combustion engine lives by some pretty basic principles, some of which include letting air in, compressing said air, and letting air out. An engine's valves come into play during each of ...

Nissan Motor Company has revealed that it has adopted cold spray technology in the production of valve seats, claiming to be the first company to use the process in automotive engines. The Japanese ...

SAE Transactions, Vol. 109, Section 5: JOURNAL OF MATERIALS & MANUFACTURING (2000), pp. 425-432 (8 pages) When CNG, LPG, and other gas fuels were used for combustion in vehicles' engines, a large ...

Valve seat wear or "sinkage" or "recession" was observed in eight engines run on unleaded fuel. Detailed studies of valve seat wear were undertaken in a 302 cu in. V-8 engine run for 10-1/4 hr at WOT ...

Original engines in cars built before the early 1970s generally don't have hardened exhaust seats that are resistant to unleaded gas. Nevertheless, tests conducted in the mid-1970s by the U.S. Army, ...