I guess not much air moves through the turbo while pulling a sled. This is off JT's truck from Diesel's in Dark Corners pull this past fall.
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I guess not much air moves through the turbo while pulling a sled. This is off JT's truck from Diesel's in Dark Corners pull this past fall.
I brought this up a while back on a different forum but has anyone thought of cryo treatin the parts?
I read a little bit into it when i read about it in a magazine and what i gathered is it basically takes all the static stress rom forging and what not out of it from when they were made.
It doesnt necesarily make them stronger but eliminates the weak spots.
Just a thought not sure if they do that already though.
I read a little bit into it when i read about it in a magazine and what i gathered is it basically takes all the static stress rom forging and what not out of it from when they were made.
It doesnt necesarily make them stronger but eliminates the weak spots.
Just a thought not sure if they do that already though.
Cryo is worthless IMO.
Airflow through the radiator/intercooler...
I'm going to cryo my stock rods and reuse them... I heard cryo will straighten them for me and make them much stronger 
Cryo is used in aerospace on some components, and while they don't do things in aerospace based on superstition, it's not a magic bullet either.
It's an additional step of heat treating steels to improve fracture resistance and wear properties. It basically "finishes" what high temp heat treat starts. It's not going to make parts much (if any) stronger, but can make them last longer.
Gears are a prime use of the process.
It's an additional step of heat treating steels to improve fracture resistance and wear properties. It basically "finishes" what high temp heat treat starts. It's not going to make parts much (if any) stronger, but can make them last longer.
Gears are a prime use of the process.
I'm going to cryo my stock rods and reuse them... I heard cryo will straighten them for me and make them much Longer
Fixed it for ya Nick.
The two broken cranks Ive seen had two things in common, and one that seperated them from all the other built motors Ive seen. They both Spun 5k or better and they both had FluidDampners on them. The one that makes them an outlier in comparison to all the other motors is the fluidDampner...
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I think that the % of broken cranks that were in stock motors or had a stock balancer, that we know about publicly, is much higher than the % that had a Fluidampner. I can't really speculate on the % with an ATI dampner but Ill bet its kinda high since most people running ATI dampners are running all-out builds and have had carnage just because of the power level they are at compared to the rest.
I agree with Jeff though, it is a combination of so many things I think, and that's why it's so hard for R&D guys like Socal or TTS or Tony, or Mark...or any of us that decide to put one of these together, to narrow it down to one culprit. it will probably be a few more years before we try enough combinations of filled blocks, cranks, cams, balancing tools, girdles, driveline setups, tuning, etc in order to find why these break right at #2.
I would bet you almost anything that stock or near stock trucks break more cranks than any built motor truck.