Originally Posted by
Fabrik8
The high HP reason for deleting is because people want extra oil pressure for safety margin, and sometimes a little less windage from the fluid contacting the rotating assembly. Well, sometimes it's because people remove balance shafts or something like that and now have enough engine vibration to fatigue and break off the squirters from the block bosses....
If your pistons are hot enough to warp with oil (even if your engine somehow became very hot before the squirters started flowing...?), your engine is going to die a horrible melty death very soon. There will always be a temperature gradient from one side of the piston crown to the other, especially if there is a squirter installed, and the oil continuously cools the piston (engines make heat continuously, and the squirters flow oil continuously too...) which is one of the reasons that squirters are useful. Cooler pistons mean more power generation (less detonation, more ignition advance, etc.), and a happier engine.
That's why NASCAR and Formula1 say your logic is flawed, they run multiple squirters per cylinder and rely on squirters to make big power and keep the engine alive.
If F1 made frying pans, I wonder if they would be made of titanium or AlSiC..? Maybe carbon/carbon for grilling. Maybe beryllium before the ban..
Haha well put. That does make a lot of sense. I have read that f1 does use them still. This is why I needed some good feed back about this because a lot of forums out there that I have read some people make pretty convincing arguments on why to get rid of them and the whole warping thing makes sense in theory, I'll see if I can pull one of the threads I found that made not want to use them. But cooler is generally better for motors as a whole yes, so i t does also make sense to have them. Thank you for the insight on the subject.
I have also seen a few things about the difference in the rod length between the GE and the GTE. The rods are shorter in the GE, and I've read that that is usually better for a motor that is going to be high in the rpm range longer than normal usage. Any thoughts on that debate?