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The idea of lining piston's and piston crowns, is still in its early stages of development and improvement. The ongoing argument with this idea is the fact that lining a piston with ceramics would result in the increase in costs for creating an engine. Although the cost of lining a piston in ceramics is more expensive,the maintenance and reduction of heat in the long run would make a ceramic piston more cost efficient.

Certain companies such as Zirotechave been putting this idea to use by installing and coating pistons in some diesel engines on a smaller scale. They have been put into use on certain high-end cars. The reason why this idea is being looked at more and more is because ceramics have a much higher heat tolerance than most other steels that would be used in the making of a piston. Which means that the cooling required to run through the piston crown and piston liner would decrease significantly. So whatever money that was saved with the decrease of cooling needed could go to better things. The only thing wrong with the picture, is that the installation and maintenance of a ceramic lined piston would be a bit on the pricey side. But it's like a hybrid car, it's expensive at first. But with how much money that was saved, the investment will pay off with rewards as well.

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