CLEVITE Engine Bearings boasts an extensive line of high performance and competition race engine bearing applications. CLEVITE is the engine bearing of choice in the high performance bearing market.
Whether modifying stock engines or building competition race engines from the ground up, the legacy of excellence that began decades ago, continues today with CLEVITE engine bearings and MAHLE Performance.
CLEVITE TriMetal™ Engine Bearings
- Exclusive three layer design capable of carrying max loads of up to 12,000 psi
- Manufactured utilizing a hardened precision steel back layer, Copper/Tin/Lead overlay and electroplated white metal babbitt reduces drag and increases horsepower
- Withstands up to 60% higher loads
- 40% better seizure resistance than the competition
CLEVITE Coated Engine Bearings
- CLEVITE HC coated bearings are coated with a moly/graphpite, high pressure, high load, dry film treatment to help reduce friction and abrasive wear. This bearing coating will provide an intermittent dry lubrication and is not affected by dust or dirt. CLEVITE HC coated bearings provide additional protection across a broad range of operating temperatures and is specifically engineered to withstand the extreme conditions of today's high-performance racing engines
- CLEVITE HC coated bearings low friction polymer base offers extraordinary protection and lubricity for extreme conditions
- CLEVITE HC coated bearings provide a higher level of confidence with increased bearing durability
Our engine bearings are offered in five series to tailor to your specific needs, each series identified by a letter: H, HC, F,and V.
- H-Series TriMetal™ bearings are suitable for all types of high performance and competition engine applications
- Manufactured utilizing a hardened steel back, cast substrate and Copper/Tin/Lead overlay
- H-Series TriMetal™ bearings are engineered with a medium level of eccentricity, high crush, and enlarged chamfers for greater crankshaft fillet clearance. This makes the H and HN bearing a great choice for high performance engines
- H-Series TriMetal™ bearings are the best choice of performance bearings to start with if unsure what series to use
- HC-Series TriMetal™ bearings were developed for high performance and competition engine applications
- HC-Series TriMetal™ coated bearings are identified by the letters HC or HCT in the part number suffix
- HC-Series TriMetal™ bearings have a proprietary .0003” dry film treatment applied to the bearings’ surface. The dry film coating increases the seizure resistance 115% over conventional H-Series bearings. The coating serves as an anti-wear agent providing additional protection across the broad range of temperatures, especially when oil flow is marginal or in cases of high load, high pressure or start-up when oil film is minimized
- HC-Series TriMetal™ bearings offer the strength and durability of the legendary CLEVITE TriMetal™ bearing construction coupled with the latest in coating technology
- F-Series TriMetal™ bearings were developed for high performance and competition engine applications
- F-Series TriMetal™ bearings are manufactured utilizing a hardened steel back, and lead-tin-indium-alumina electroplated overlay applied over CLEVITE’s cast bronze lead substrate for maximum performance and reliability
- F-Series TriMetal™ bearings improved overlay increases seizure resistance 126% over conventional H-Series TriMetal bearings
- F-Series TriMetal™ bearings require no additional thickness resulting in a bearing that is dimensionally the same as a H-Series with the best seizure resistance percentage available
- F-Series TriMetal™ bearings are the optimum performance bearing in the industry
- V-Series TriMetal™ bearings were developed for extreme competition engine applications
- V-Series TriMetal™ bearings are manufactured utilizing a hardened steel back with a lead-indium overlay which offers better conformability in extreme applications
- V-Series TriMetal™ bearings have reduced wear resistance and are engineered to have a medium eccentricity
