Stock BLOCK horsepower. How much?
09-25-2006, 07:44 AM
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RE: Stock BLOCK horsepower. How much?
I have never heard of tungsten carbide rods ect..... I only know of Aluminium, Titanium (very rare), Steel, Forged steel, Billit steel etc. To my knowledge the stock rods are made of some sort of compressed powder. But to say tungsten carbide? how the hell are we supposed to know what your talking about. Never heard of that, sounds more like a golf club than a connecting rod.
09-25-2006, 09:54 AM
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RE: Stock BLOCK horsepower. How much?
Tungsten carbide is one of the hardest materials around, it's commonly used for tools which need high hardness, like drill bits or taps. Since the rotating assembly doesn't have to absorb energy (and you wouldn't want it to, wastes power), you can go with a high hardness, high stregth, not very ductile material. However, he was just saying that because of it's stregth, not because it would be good to use in the assembly, it's very heavy, almost 2 twice as dense as steel.
09-25-2006, 11:20 AM
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RE: Stock BLOCK horsepower. How much?
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Tungsten carbide is one of the hardest materials around, it's commonly used for tools which need high hardness, like drill bits or taps. Since the rotating assembly doesn't have to absorb energy (and you wouldn't want it to, wastes power), you can go with a high hardness, high stregth, not very ductile material. However, he was just saying that because of it's stregth, not because it would be good to use in the assembly, it's very heavy, almost 2 twice as dense as steel.
Tungsten carbide is one of the hardest materials around, it's commonly used for tools which need high hardness, like drill bits or taps. Since the rotating assembly doesn't have to absorb energy (and you wouldn't want it to, wastes power), you can go with a high hardness, high stregth, not very ductile material. However, he was just saying that because of it's stregth, not because it would be good to use in the assembly, it's very heavy, almost 2 twice as dense as steel.
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09-25-2006, 11:26 AM
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RE: Stock BLOCK horsepower. How much?
Ideally, all of your internals would be forged aluminum to keep the rotating mass down. Then you can spin it up higher 
. But thats where the big bucks come in, building a motor that can handle a lot of power or a lot of RPM is VERY expensive. For a 302, a good set of racing forged aluminum rods and pistons will cost you in the neighborhood of $2000. Be ready to spend some cash triisomy.
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. But thats where the big bucks come in, building a motor that can handle a lot of power or a lot of RPM is VERY expensive. For a 302, a good set of racing forged aluminum rods and pistons will cost you in the neighborhood of $2000. Be ready to spend some cash triisomy.-P.
09-25-2006, 11:30 AM
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RE: Stock BLOCK horsepower. How much?
great.. i'm sitting in my manufaturing and processing materials class, and reading to MF's to get my mind off of this stuff, and now it comes back to bite me in the ***[:@] lol, tungsten carbide is some strong stuff, but idk if someone has used it before... if you got the money, you could be the first!
09-25-2006, 04:50 PM
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RE: Stock BLOCK horsepower. How much?
ORIGINAL: droptoppony
stock block can handle over 1000hp
stock block can handle over 1000hp
09-25-2006, 08:17 PM
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RE: Stock BLOCK horsepower. How much?
ORIGINAL: stang2000
Where did you get that info from? That's 500 over what it's capbable of.
ORIGINAL: droptoppony
stock block can handle over 1000hp
stock block can handle over 1000hp