The Effects of Cylinder Wall Surface Roughness and Bore Distortion on Blow-by in Automotive Engines

A laboratory test device, was developed to study the effects of cylinder wall, surface roughness and bore, distortion on blow-by in automotive engines. The test device was constructed of components from a four-cylinder engine with a test box welded into the engine block to take the place of one of the cylinders. Removable liners used in the lest box were honed to varying surface roughnesses and bore distortion levels, Blow-by, used as a measure of conformance between the piston rings and cylinder walls, was found to increase at the end of the test with increasing initial distortion and initial surface roughness.