Two Cycle Engine Coatings Articles

An Introduction to Swain Tech’s Two Stroke Performance Coatings

High performance does not come without its price. That price often is reduced reliability in the form of damaged internal engine parts. However, high tech, high performance engine coatings can...

Why Coat a Two Stroke Piston?

Pistons are the highest stressed and the most critical part of an internal combustion engine. This is especially true for a two stroke motor. The four cycle piston only sees...

How Do You Make a 200HP Twin Reliable?

When building a mighty 200HP twin, PSI performance made many modifications to let them produce 200HP from a motor that started life as a 700cc twin. Custom cylinders were made...

From Little Blaster to Class Champ with Swain Tech’s Coatings

Last winter, one of our motocross customers met with me and asked, “Dave, how can I get more low and mid-range power and a little longer engine life without sacrificing...

Snowmobile Grass Drags: Local Racers to National Champs with Swain Coatings

There are a lot of glamorous, expensive, go-fast products on the market. Many racers are certain that these magic bolt-ons will make their sled the fastest on circuit. But Dave...

Advanced Coating Technology

Swain Tech has developed and applied high-tech coatings for engine and exhaust parts for more than two decades. Some companies have tried to imitate Swain Tech Coatings by offering commercially...

Coatings Get Technical

Coatings are an exciting materials technology that is reshaping the way engineers think about some of the basic engineering. If you look around, coatings are everywhere. Coatings can be found...