[Fot] titanium rods

[Don Carter]

Jack, you guys stay up way too late.  I thought I was the only night person.
You know architects train for this in college. What's yall's excuse?

Don W. Carter, AIA
Carter Design Associates
6213 Skyline Dr., Suite 100
Houston, Texas 77057
(713) 529-2288 Telephone
(713) 789-2330 Fax
don at carterdesignassociates.com
 


-----Original Message-----
From: fot-bounces at autox.team.net [mailto:fot-bounces at autox.team.net] On
Behalf Of Jack W. Drews
Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 11:46 PM
To: fot at autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Fot] titanium rods


One rod manufacturer I talked with said they can supply rods in 
titanium for the bargain basement price of about $460 per rod. On the 
other hand, there are less expensive approaches to lowering rod weight.

Carillos weigh about 680 grams per rod. Pauter, Cunningham, Saenz all 
weigh in at about the same. There are domestic rods that can be 
converted for TR use that weigh 650 grams per rod. One car will 
shortly be racing with these rods. Not all that much weight savings, 
but the set I just converted for a friend cost less than half of what 
Carillos cost. Then if you want to buy new Wiseco pistons and have 
them made to accept shorter pins, you can reduce the weight of the 
rod / pin / piston assembly by another 20 grams by using lightweight pins.

Then there's one more approach to lightweight rods that would give 
rods of about 550 grams and still cost less than Carillos.

Tantalizing, huh? But when I survey the FOT list for interest, I 
don't come up with enough genuine interest to make the whole thing 
viable from the standpoint of bringing these to market and making a 
decent profit for all the effort, so I've run out of steam.

If there is enough interest, I'll write this up and put it on Tony's web
site.



uncle jack 



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