20v mods for N/A power

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Postby old schooler » Mon Oct 10, 2005 3:25 pm

4340 is a grade of steel. high strenght and quality. and explaines why no one wants to do it.

the dvd would be a good watch, wouldnt mind seeing it

if you could watch it and see anything worth intresting, it would be aprreciated Fraud. thanks
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Postby Volodkovich » Mon Oct 10, 2005 3:38 pm

All_Fours wrote:I can't blame nooone for wanting to machine a crank for you from a steel billet - it's a stupid idea! Even a cast steel crank will have better grain structure than one machined from a billet. Not only that but there's no way you'd be able to machine a billet down to the shape of a crank without it distorting. There would need to be a lot of post-machining heat treatment and reshaping of the crank to make it sound, and even then I wouldn't like the chances of it surviving high revs for long.
Also do you even know what 4340 means?


Have you never heard of a billet crank before?

Properly done billet cranks can be and are the best around. How do you think they make Formula 1 cranks? cast them! haha
Very expensive though, especially when you start with a chunk of forged steel...
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Postby Malcolm » Mon Oct 10, 2005 3:53 pm

I actually wondered about F1 motors - I would think that forging them would be much better than machining from billet, especially if you have the budget of an F1 team - and I'd expect machining one would cost a lot more than $5K (unless you did it all yourself)
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Postby ROBODISCO_20v » Wed Mar 01, 2006 6:27 pm

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