[Fot] titanium rods

[Jack W. Drews]

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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