- 1. Hot manifold question (score: 1)
- Author: MJSUKEY@cs.com
- Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 23:11:17 EDT
- OK folks, another dumb question for you. Jason and I finally got the fresh motor installed and fired up tonight in the TR6. 10:30 at night we had the car out side with the hood off and fired her up.
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- 2. RE: Hot manifold question (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Babcock <BillB@bnj.com>
- Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 20:43:24 -0700
- Scary, huh. Not really a problem. A slight orange glow is nothing much. Bright yellow is even okay. I've had a stainless exhaust be bright yellow halfway to the header junction and red to the flange.
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- 3. Re: Hot manifold question (score: 1)
- Author: portermd@zianet.com
- Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2004 23:19:13 -0600
- Don't think this is a problem. When I was racing roundy-rounders, there were all sorts of interesting header colors one could see at night through the wheel wells. One could always tell the people wh
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- 4. RE: Hot manifold question (score: 1)
- Author: "Doug Mitchell" <dmitchel@sbcglobal.net>
- Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 11:55:14 -0400
- If you want to see something neat, look at a turbo when it is running at full rpms. Glows a beautiful color. When I worked in the engine dynos at Ford, we used to run tractor and heavy truck engines
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- 5. Re: Hot manifold question (score: 1)
- Author: portermd@zianet.com
- Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2004 13:17:35 -0600
- Probably the reason why so many manufacturers have been moving to ceramic impellers (those seem to have their own set of problems, though, such as cracking at stress concentration points--for a while
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- 6. Re: Hot manifold question (score: 1)
- Author: "kas kastner" <kaskas@cox.net>
- Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 14:07:12 -0700
- Ceramic impellers are used generally becuse they are LIGHT and therefore the acclerate quicker than incinel. The temperature in a turbine housing, if all is right, with the mixture is about 1650F. No
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- 7. Re: Hot manifold question (score: 1)
- Author: Chris Kantarjiev <cak@dimebank.com>
- Date: Sun, 4 Jul 2004 11:21:38 -0700 (PDT)
- It could be nothing. Then again, when I rebuilt my first A series, I ended up with a small head gasket leak between #2 and #3 (a common problem), which meant that I was pumping some raw mixture into
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