My recent curiosity is how come DSM’s less than 15 years old are rustier and fall apart the moment a wrench touches them, when cars 4 times as old made with hundreds of times less technology back then come apart bolt by bolt time and time again in most cases??? LOL
But for real, I am back to header construction and design research since I have 3 different ones coming up I have to build.
Is it possible is NEVER the question. Its HOW can it be done.
There is a local guy that Dumpybunny knows and works with real well that will tell you that. They have taken stock cranks from tractors, stick welded to the jurnals material, then cut the jurnals on a crank lathe, and made stroker cranks, that were never ever produced elsewhere. taking 400ci engines past 680ci, that hold thousands of lbs of tq, 200+ psi of boost and rev twice as fast if not more than the motors were designed to. Also straightens them BY HAND with torches, gauges and fixtures… all out of a barn millions of people drive by in the middle of farm country, people would never know was going on.
where there is a will there is a way… simple as that.
This is why I am always researching stuff I already feel like I have a firm grasp on or atleast a bit of expierence with and finding the people out there that “talk the talk”, but after i walked their talk then see they were right… I focus more on the rest of the talk they talk i have yet to walk (lol)… if you get my long retarded drift there.
What I am saying is the amount of miss-information out there is staggering, from people putting in “solidified” 2 cents that are just not right, let alone the blanket statement like I quoted. (this isnt a ball busting skid, just using this for example). So when your curiosity kicks in and you do research, be cautious of these “facts” out there.
Case and point, I wanted to find the best oil feed source for daves eclipse build, since its feeding a $2200 turbo, I want to make sure its right. DSM fourms had a ton of “know it alls” saying what port on the oil filter housing to use, and more than a few were totally wrong on how the housings worked and had a few people buying into them and running the feeds from the port they said, then backed it up with “well mine has been running fine”. until one guy came in and took the time to take pics of the housings and the ports & runners for the oil flow and explained how the port they were using was unfilitered and un cooled oil when the first guys thought it was the opposit. Took pics and explained the design step by step. Some would call it a KK rant, others looking for RIGHT information would call it a needle in a haystack that could save someones expensive turbo!