Richard L |
13-08-2005 12:23 PM |
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Originally Posted by Greenv8s
That's a beautiful bit of machining, but I'm a little concerned about the stiffness of those three mounting fins. I would guess there is plenty of vibration to excite them, and if it hits resonance at any point I could see the whole lot dropping into the turbo. It looks as if you have space to make the fins two or three times deeper (axially) and this would strengthen and stiffen them immensely. It would also give you the opportunity to give them a more streamlines teardrop cross section if you wanted.
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I was surprised how strong those rails are, you can't move them very easily with your fingeres. I do see your point when it hits resonance (not sure when) it will cause it great distress.
The rail will be much thicker when the cutting tools arrive next week, it will be in tear drop shape. At present, we use what tool we have available.
The rails are 2.5mm thick 4mm tall. When we are putting the water way inside one of them, it will be around 3mm x 6mm tall. We have plenty of room to do that as you mentioned.
This quick job was for just one dyno test next week to see how if it can puch the turboes beyond its bottle neck at just under 790HP at the wheels (twin turbo set up).
If it does, we will invest more time on it.
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