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Blown 472
04-15-2004, 04:35 PM
What are your thoughts on a alum rod street strip dealio?? and any thing special to running alum rods? I know you have to let every thing warm up before hounding on it.
Kindsvater Flat
04-15-2004, 04:50 PM
Originally posted by Blown 472
What are your thoughts on a alum rod street strip dealio?? and any thing special to running alum rods? I know you have to let every thing warm up before hounding on it.
Now wasn't this question asked in another forum?:D
Blown 472
04-15-2004, 06:01 PM
Originally posted by Kindsvater Flat
Now wasn't this question asked in another forum?:D
You should talk, me asking car questions in a boat forum, you asking boat questions in a car forum. :p :p
Fiat48
04-15-2004, 08:16 PM
I wouldn't. Aluminum rods don't like heat for sure and any street use is going to make more heat than the rods would like. I'd run steel rods for sure.
GofastRacer
04-15-2004, 08:38 PM
My worthless opinion is, aluminum rods are for fuelers only!.:rolleyes:
Fiat48
04-15-2004, 08:41 PM
Shock absorbers.
GofastRacer
04-15-2004, 08:49 PM
Exactamundo!..
cstraub
04-16-2004, 05:01 AM
Fellas, there is an aluminum rod that will run on the street, in fact the US government has cycle tested it in a 12 to 1 engine for 100K miles. Made about 10 miles from my house. Any of you boat racers want the number let me know. You will have to rebalance your assemble because on average they are 100 grm. lighter then the competition.
Chris
GofastRacer
04-16-2004, 06:15 AM
What is the stretch factor on them?, I don't like aluminum rods in a naturally aspirated motor because of stretch you can't have a tight quench area which messes up the combustion!..
cstraub
04-16-2004, 07:03 AM
No stretch to them. This rod is designed to run in steel rod applications..
Chris
LakesOnly
04-16-2004, 08:21 AM
You talkin' about this?
Ceramic Composite Rods (http://www.competitionplus.com/05_14_2003/nextgen_rods.html)
LO
LakesOnly
04-16-2004, 08:54 AM
Originally posted by LakesOnly
You talkin' about this?
Ceramic Composite Rods (http://www.competitionplus.com/05_14_2003/nextgen_rods.html)
LO
Oh man, they took the html page down! Sorry 'bout that!
LO
cstraub
04-16-2004, 08:54 AM
Lakes,
I couldn't get it to link, but if it is the article about Jager.. . Yes. Several Pro Stock teams have been running the rod. Both the process and the splayed rod cap are patented.
Chris
LakesOnly
04-16-2004, 09:04 AM
Originally posted by cstraub69
Lakes,
I couldn't get it to link, but if it is the article about Jager.. . Yes. Several Pro Stock teams have been running the rod. Both the process and the splayed rod cap are patented.
Chris
Splayed rod bolts! I tell ya, when I read that and saw the pictures, I had one of those "Damn! Why didn't I think of that!" experiences.
Those rods are indeed bad-ass. Too bad they're $1000 set
LO
cstraub
04-16-2004, 09:09 AM
Yeah, but a good set of billet steels are $1300. These last as long and are lighter. Did you see he runs a nostagia front engine twin screw nitro car? 600 passes to date with a cast crank. Rods in it way 450gms.
Chris
GofastRacer
04-17-2004, 02:16 AM
Gonna have to look into that!..