John you should go back to selling Amway Please stop trying to make excuses for your mistakes. Youve just quoted yourself stating that inconel is the wrong metal for high temp applications (what its designed for). You need to just suck it up, be a man and admit you didnt know what you were talking about. Inconel is a trademarked composition of metal, you dont get "part inconel". Instead of trying to make out you pretend to know things here, get back to your mechanics and let them instruct you. Hopefully they are busy fixing the tuning of your car so it wont break more rods, and find out why its so under performing compared to Mikes who runs the same turbos.
says the man who argues vehemently FOR side mount intercoolers yet in his signature, shows a pic of his car with a FRONT mount!! nice going :LOL:
Sand blasted or extrude hone Hey Graham are you sure they are extrude honed, as expensive to do properly. Proper extrude honing requires time consuming and expensive flanges to be made, and expensive equipment and takes many hours to do properly and vastly different results. If getting sand blasted may not be much of a difference and $300 tells me may not be extrude honed. I am on the same page though proving myths wrong and hence why we went down the path of improving the factory ones instead of believing had to go after market. Forget the dyno readings 139.67mph proves it I think. Whilst throwing around motor sport I know Indy cars and Nascars in USA get most everything estrude honed. James from Abrasive Flow Engineering worked over in USA at extrude home work shop for three months to learn, and they did lots of it for these guys. Water pumps to oil line fittings etc.
530 + rwkw in progress? WTF would you do with it? Is there a race on for power figures before a dyno reading or an engine build? My zed only makes 270kw at the wheels (HPI Mag #51) but its a hoot to drive.
Re: Sand blasted or extrude hone quote came from the guy in ballarat. Apparently it is fair dinkum extrude honing. But I have to say i havent checked properly. I recon my manifolds will be fine. I just have to figure out how to weld the cast iron. The MIG didnt work. I thought they may be steel but NAH. I want to put 38mm external wastegate flanges on the manifolds in place of the EGR outlet. Its gonna be interesting. Think you can buy iron arc sticks. I have to see tomorrow if I can get some. I just want the extrude hone to smooth the bits i cant reach. The reshaping will already be done by hand by me. First thing is to get the dumps finished. I had to change the shape of them again. The CES ones are sort of not quite ideal being bent in the wrong place on the drivers side. They stuck out too far. Also the turbo flanges where wrong. With one hole not quite in the right spot.
Re: just picking you to bits, like you tend to do to others here LOL, now kids !!!!!!!!!!!! :LOL::LOL::LOL: This manifold stuff is really topical lets try to stick with it.
top pre- coona reading, guys ... will give us coona-ites something to chewy on ....!!!!!!:LOL::wacko::wacko:
Inconel is a Nickel Alloy and there are different types available So perhaps there are some more suitable than others for manifold applications? Nickel Alloys
does that mean we will need to meet at two different locations ..??? :LOL::LOL::thumbsup::thumbsup::wacko:
a new, better thought .. no golf next time .. to be replaced by a boxing tournament ...:LOL::LOL::thumbsup::thumbsup:
LOL I'm with Sean, aslong as there is naked ladies and jelly involved! Oops of the topic a bit!:LOL::LOL::thumbsup:
any idea why these are taking so long? if they are cast, then shouldn't it be quick and easy to spit out once the original has been created??
Latest HPI has a 686ps Z Pentroof demo car that uses standard manifolds. Who doesnt want stupid amounts of power? I found 500rwhp pretty fun and im building for more! Deep down we are all dyno queens and want to have the most powerful zed!!
