[Fot] Racing rod design

[Aaron]

I guess I'm confused.  How much worse is the stroke of a tr4.  

In my spitfire 1500 we use stock rods and a stock crank shaft and shift point is 7200 rpm. Guys using the moldex cranks and forged rods are getting 8500 or so.   And these are the pauter x style. 

Are you sure the initial failure was the rod and not something before that?

AaronJohnson
H Prod spitfire 1500

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> On Jul 23, 2015, at 07:40, John Hasty <jhasty at mhc-law.com> wrote:
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> Gee Whiz….you guys know a h- - - of a lot more about this than me, but I reason that if Manley etc. make a rod that withstands the rigors of a 800+ hp American V8 turning upwards of 9000 rpm and it costs ½ of what P and C are charging it makes sense to use them…..
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> From: Fot [mailto:fot-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of John Styduhar
> Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2015 9:59 AM
> To: Christian Marx; Triumph 'Friends of Triumph
> Subject: Re: [Fot] Racing rod design
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> Pauter has been making this design for almost 30 years with zero cold failures.  If it were a poor design they would have changed it out of necessity.  According to a Pauter rep., the main reason they started manufacturing their own rods in the first place was due to the fact that the H beam and I beam rods they were using couldn’t put up with what they were throwing at them with their turbo charged 4cylinder engines.   
> If you spin a rod bearing, eventually you will break anything. 
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> On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 9:49 AM, Christian Marx <tr4racing at googlemail.com> wrote:
> I saw the pictures of Pauter.
> This type has no material were it needs and too much were it doesn't make sense.  Maybe for very short rods usable.
> 
> Am 23.07.2015 14:46 schrieb "John Styduhar" <johnstydo at gmail.com>:
> The Pauter design is a cross-beam (an inside-out H beam) not an x-beam and shares H-beam design properties because of this. 
>  
> On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 3:34 AM, MadMarx <tr4racing at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Today I had a look to a book called race car design.
> It also contains engines, and as detail rods and their designs. I, H, blade – no x-beam (seems they never got the idea that someone could get the idea of an x-beam rod)
>  
> They said that F1 uses I-beam rods because they have the best stiffness to weight ratio.
> Also German DTM-cars use I-beam rods.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Tourenwagen_Masters
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> Cheers
> Chris
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