A photo from open sources American Matti Holzberg has long wanted create a full-fledged internal combustion engine from plastic. Most recently, an engineer received the support of a Belgian company “Solvay” specializing in the chemical industry, and began design an innovative automobile engine “Polimotor 2”. Almost all components and parts of the mechanism will be made of various heavy duty plastics.
This four-cylinder twin engine gas distribution system of the upper location, planned in further equip the concept car “Aurora Norma M-20”, which must take part in the race on the Connecticut Lyme highway Rock Park.
According to Holzberg, many did not believe in his venture, assuring that not a single plastic material can withstand extreme loads, significant pressure and high temperature in the engine. Giving an interview with American reporters, an engineer said that these fears really have a foundation, because the camera the combustion and exhaust manifold of the engine will still have to be manufactured from metal (presumably aluminum alloy). However all other parts of the device will be composite.
“Polimotor 2” is not in vain has a deuce in its name. IN eighties the American chemical company “Amoco” created relatively successful plastic internal combustion engine “Polimotor”, which they also wanted to put in a racing car. Not less, due to some complications, the company abandoned its project. It was then that Matti Holzberg bought technology, starting it perfect by creating your own unique Polimotor 2 engine. According to the inventor, he soon will certainly be able to achieve success, and its plastic engine will not yield traditional counterparts.
Moreover, “Polimotor 2” must have some undeniable advantages over metal engines. Its mass will be only about sixty four kilograms, which is four a dozen kilos less than the weight of the lightest modern engine for the car. At eight thousand revolutions per minute, the mechanism will be deliver power of four and a half hundred horsepower. To that the unique Holzberg engine in the future will certainly cheaper than a modern metal counterpart …
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