which will be super charged.
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Yes Greg, I'm soon coming your way
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Titaniums issue is not fatigue. It galls if it is used as a friction surface. If it sees non reversed loads it will slowly grow shorter/longer.junglejustice wrote:Freezing helps with the blocks to stress-release them... I'm iffy on the rods though...
One thing to understand with the rods is that you DON'T want them strong and ridged... Place a Carrillo in the vice at the big-end and just pull on it by hand on the small-end... You will be amazed!
Even when just "seating bearings" before installation - you have to clamp the big-end itself down leaving some of the rod-cap and bolt exposed just enough to get the socket on the rod-bolts - don't even think about clamping the small-end and then toque'ing the big-end caps... Paper-weight...
Point is that the shot-peening helps a great deal to get rid of small edges and cracks before they start. We've done the plasma heat-treating and the heat/freeze cycle but we are cautious at this stage of making them any more ridged as the point of the Pauters for example is that they "give" under abnormal conditions such as ping.
A really stiff, ridged rod is outta there in no time.
Like titanium rods - they are for race teams with big budgets. They trash-can them after each race as the metal fatigue-rate is higher (however stronger over shorter periods...) Things are changing in the Titanium realm (just heard of a set with 23K kilos just changed out and driven hard daily at that!!!)
Jury is still out on Titanium though as a long-term-street use rod...