VW Audi Connecting Rod Bearing Set - KS 033105701

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About KS

Founded by Karl Schmidt of 1910, Kolbenschmidt was initially oil-firing devices for smelting metals. A few years later, the first pistons were cast and in 1934 a workshop for the machining of pistons was set up. From then on, the company began supplying machined pistons to the automotive industry. In 1935, the first plain bearings were produced. Increasingly more powerful engines dictated a need for continuing developments in piston engineering. In 1948 they developed the scraper ring pistons via lightweight aluminum pistons and in the sixties they first profiled pin bores in the seventies. In present-day piston engineering, besides the reduction of friction, important factors are performance and strength, optimum piston cooling as well as reduced noise. Such requirements have led to features such as nanocoating or steel pistons for commercial vehicle and passenger car engines.