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Originally Posted by Old Tele man
Polimotor experimented with a plastic 2.0L Ford engine years ago:
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The plastic in question was Torlon, but all I’ve found(back when I had an old Ford 2.0) was that it was significantly lighter than even aluminum and the engine was made mostly from it except the rotating assembly and made some pretty big power for a normally aspirated engine...
If we could get Ti sleeves at the same hardness as steel, but save weight and have lower thermal conductivity, put them into a Torlon block... don’t get me wrong, we’d have a half million dollar engine but it would be remarkably efficient and powerful for its capacity...