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Originally Posted by Sneakybassturd69
Where do you think ceramic bearings is worth it from what I understand they can reduce friction 20-50 percent in certain places, and they last forever
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Are you talking about ceramic wheel bearings or engine bearings?
Aside from roller lifters and roller chains, you are not going to find any type of roller bearing in most engines.
If you want to put ceramic bearings some where on your engine, put a ceramic ball bearing turbocharger on it.
In my next engine build I am going to convert it to a roller lifter cam and also try to convert the cam "bearings" (which are actually bushings) to rollers too. This is done by installing traditional cam bearings wrong (so cam bearing oil port does not line up with the with the hole, blocking off oil cam bearing oil flow, normally this is disastrous) Then the cam bearing journal is turned down on a lathe to the diameter of the inside of the rollers. When you put it together the roller bearings are splash oiled by oil being flung off the crank.
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Last edited by oil pan 4; 06-03-2015 at 05:54 PM..
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