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Originally Posted by Frank Lee
Cast iron makes a hella nice cylinder; it wears like.... iron. Aluminum- not so much.
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Aluminum makes a terrible cylinder because it gets abraded away. Hence, they are all fitted with cast iron liners or a ceramic composite (increases the material strength too via particle reinforcement), giving you an even better cylinder. I don't have much to throw out of my car besides air conditioning (the day it fails it's gone, I'm not going to replace it), electrohydraulic power steering (don't want to spend money on a manual rack that only barely saves 10 pounds), and various plastics that add up to less than 50 pounds, so I'm pretty glad my engine is only 95kg.