# Compare: ICs

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**Category:** Shift518 Automotive\
**Created:** [June 3, 2009, 3:25pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/compare-ics/244552 "2009-06-03T15:25:14Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 6, 2009, 1:53am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/compare-ics/244552/53 "2009-06-06T01:53:02Z")

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> [@OFFICIAL Buffalo Sabres Thread](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/official-buffalo-sabres-thread/25170/426):
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> I’m not sure.
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> i did a pretty extensive fest of DLC cotings so I know a lot about them.
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> I think it can be done, with RF plasma deposition at a substrate temperature of only 150C. I am not sure though, I would have to talk to my contacts. I sure do know what company I would go with though, as one brand was WAY better than the others.
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> Ion beam deposition requires an exposed surface, so i don’t think you could do the inside surfaces with the ION beam.  
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IIRC, I think the company I was researching was something called Tekvac or soemthing like that. Had HCPIIP and PVD application processes, which I think would work for an engine bore(in theory in my head at least???). Essentially turn the cylinder itself into a vacuum chamber, as long as you could cap the bore on both ends perfectly. I guess the real trick with the HCPIIP application would be getting the cathode to be the cylinder wall. Anode(s) could just be the plugs.

Ah so many things. So little funding :lol

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