Rod strength
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Re: Rod strength
Is the problem (or the perceived problem) of fragility about powder metal vs. conventional forging? Or is it about designing the material to make the end cap crackable? There are conventionally forged cracked rods, but they also have to be heat treated etc. to be crackable.
I have ancient non-cracked powder metal "PPF" rods and you could use them as a hammer, I don't think they would crack.
I have ancient non-cracked powder metal "PPF" rods and you could use them as a hammer, I don't think they would crack.
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people just find it very strange.
I did too when I first encountered the stuff, but that was 25 years ago.
Once you get used to it.....it's pretty cool stuff.
$ for $ better than forged mild steel,
and.....Whenever joe blow is talking about rods, it's always the subject anyway. About how he can get NEW ones from summit and it's better deal than...whatever. If they want most bang for the buck as priority #1, this is what they SHOULD want.
Because of the process being so well controlled, each one comes out identical and nearly perfectly balanced.
One "downside" is the material is only 90% as dense as true steel, but, is that even a problem? Not really. If anything that's an advantage when under compression. I doubt the figure of 1500lb is correct, tho.
Either that's prior to some mechanical advantage of the machine, and/or they are partly bending them to crack them, in which case there should be torque component.
I did too when I first encountered the stuff, but that was 25 years ago.
Once you get used to it.....it's pretty cool stuff.
$ for $ better than forged mild steel,
and.....Whenever joe blow is talking about rods, it's always the subject anyway. About how he can get NEW ones from summit and it's better deal than...whatever. If they want most bang for the buck as priority #1, this is what they SHOULD want.
Because of the process being so well controlled, each one comes out identical and nearly perfectly balanced.
One "downside" is the material is only 90% as dense as true steel, but, is that even a problem? Not really. If anything that's an advantage when under compression. I doubt the figure of 1500lb is correct, tho.
Either that's prior to some mechanical advantage of the machine, and/or they are partly bending them to crack them, in which case there should be torque component.
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Back when I was working at a Chevy dealership and racing circle track late models, we'd build "claimer" engines for the lower division guys. When the PM rods came out and ample core engines were available, we figured what better place to check their durability. I never saw one fail. Period. Never ran them in the upper division cars, but they worked great for claimers.
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Re: Rod strength
Its a 'pre-scored line'. They didn't just crack a solid chunk of metal, with 1500 psi in a targeted manner. There was already a failure point built into the rod so it would crack there. I also doubt they just cranked up the pressure and it cracked. They likely used some sort of force connected to that 1500 psi, one would think.
That's a whole lot different that sticking a rod into a pressure chamber with 1500 psi and having it crack somewhere.
You can't make any determination of how strong a rod is from that.
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I fully understand the procedure used to split it even before I posted this, I was just very surprised that cracking at the same time 2 of the most meaty sections of the rod took only 1500 lbs of applied force!
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Here's a question: Do they press it with 1500 lbf force or do they have a rig that drops a 1500 lbs weight on it from some height? I vaguely remember that when one of the Japanese motorcycle manufacturers developed a conventionally forged crackable rod. I think they were dropping the weight on the rod to crack it.
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Re: Rod strength
Sorry! For me, that wasn't clear in the original post.
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in my experience, and i may be wrong, but in general powdered metal, or MIM etc, are all very strong in the direction they were designed to take force, but when force is applied in a different direction the stuff is fairly brittle.
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We’re working on these super light, non fragile new custom con rods. Bearings that fit these may be a little short:
The pistons should not score alusil, nikasil, or cast iron! Pin weighs more than piston and rod combined...
The pistons should not score alusil, nikasil, or cast iron! Pin weighs more than piston and rod combined...
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Re: Rod strength
If force is applied to a conrod in a direction other than what it's designed for something else has already gone horribly wrong.
The PM rods seem to bend/buckle when overloaded, not shatter. I don't know that I have ever seen one broken that wasn't killed as a result of some other component failure. I have seen a lot of them bent and twisted up like pretzels, as in my picture at the bottom of page 1.
The PM rods seem to bend/buckle when overloaded, not shatter. I don't know that I have ever seen one broken that wasn't killed as a result of some other component failure. I have seen a lot of them bent and twisted up like pretzels, as in my picture at the bottom of page 1.
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Re: Rod strength
5.2 mustang gt350 voodoo engine. Had bearing failure then the bolt let go..
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Re: Rod strength
after a stress riser is put in them.
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i guess where i'm going is a small score is not going to cause it to break at 1500 lbf in the axial direction, its not as brittle glass in the axial direction otherwise it would work in an engine as a small nick would cause immediate fracture. the definition of the load /pressure whatever they mean is flawed
Re: Rod strength
A single 1/4-28 bolt can hold 1500 pounds tension, and it has lots of score marks since it's threaded.
The figure of 1500lb is is wrong.
It would have to be several times that to even be believable.
just as a very rough guess, this powered metal is at least 80% as strong in tension as mild steel, and the average rod's section is at least 4x the section of a 1/4 bolt, so about the lowest I would possibly believe would be 4800lb, and it's probably a lot higher than that.
The figure of 1500lb is is wrong.
It would have to be several times that to even be believable.
just as a very rough guess, this powered metal is at least 80% as strong in tension as mild steel, and the average rod's section is at least 4x the section of a 1/4 bolt, so about the lowest I would possibly believe would be 4800lb, and it's probably a lot higher than that.
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