EPIC nuts/studs loosening thread (reposting stupid stuff without reading = warning)
#161
and I'm sorry, but if you're in a FI miata in any capacity and you're not turning laps faster than the SM record, on street tires, you're not a man. How the hell do you take yourself seriously if a 140whp gay-dude is ***-raping you at 1/2 the power? I don't care, you're a power-bottom.
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^^ FWIW I am using water injection as well, 5 GPH nozzle, and my exh-mani to turbine inlet studs (T2) were very tight after the track day at MSR. Regular BEGI-supplied studs and clinched (self-locking) nuts.
#165
Don't you think **** would start breaking before EGT got high enough to start effecting the hardware?
For example, RX7's run a whole lot higher EGT. What do they do for the solution?
What's the highest EGT people are seeing without engine damage?
My experience (I'm slow, I don't break SM records) this year; new hardware and plained the manifold after a stud sheared. 3 trackdays, no loosening.
Nordlocks melt and are crap for the heat we see.
Right now I have a combination of Audi copper coated nuts and Catepillar-supplied nuts. I'll see if there's a significant difference in the long-term.
For a data point, anyone running a turbo blanket having this problem (if so, I bet it's worse)?
Chris
For example, RX7's run a whole lot higher EGT. What do they do for the solution?
What's the highest EGT people are seeing without engine damage?
My experience (I'm slow, I don't break SM records) this year; new hardware and plained the manifold after a stud sheared. 3 trackdays, no loosening.
Nordlocks melt and are crap for the heat we see.
Right now I have a combination of Audi copper coated nuts and Catepillar-supplied nuts. I'll see if there's a significant difference in the long-term.
For a data point, anyone running a turbo blanket having this problem (if so, I bet it's worse)?
Chris
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No, more of a medium speed, but with decently long acceleration runs in two or three spots. At the end of the faster straight I was hitting about 100 mph, FI race tire Miatas were probably hitting 120 (carried more speed onto the straight, deeper braking).
The fast track day course here is Texas World Speedway. I have done 160-170 mph on the front straight on a liter bike. It is a looooong straight, with a very fast corner at the end of it. I have not run my Miata there... yet...
The fast track day course here is Texas World Speedway. I have done 160-170 mph on the front straight on a liter bike. It is a looooong straight, with a very fast corner at the end of it. I have not run my Miata there... yet...
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Don't you think **** would start breaking before EGT got high enough to start effecting the hardware?
For example, RX7's run a whole lot higher EGT. What do they do for the solution?
What's the highest EGT people are seeing without engine damage?
My experience (I'm slow, I don't break SM records) this year; new hardware and plained the manifold after a stud sheared. 3 trackdays, no loosening.
Nordlocks melt and are crap for the heat we see.
Right now I have a combination of Audi copper coated nuts and Catepillar-supplied nuts. I'll see if there's a significant difference in the long-term.
For a data point, anyone running a turbo blanket having this problem (if so, I bet it's worse)?
Chris
For example, RX7's run a whole lot higher EGT. What do they do for the solution?
What's the highest EGT people are seeing without engine damage?
My experience (I'm slow, I don't break SM records) this year; new hardware and plained the manifold after a stud sheared. 3 trackdays, no loosening.
Nordlocks melt and are crap for the heat we see.
Right now I have a combination of Audi copper coated nuts and Catepillar-supplied nuts. I'll see if there's a significant difference in the long-term.
For a data point, anyone running a turbo blanket having this problem (if so, I bet it's worse)?
Chris
Chris, is your exhaust hard-mounted?
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Just putting this out there, but I wonder if it has anything to do with how much curbing we take and how stiff our suspension is. Granted all that, especially the curbing part, has to do again with how fast we are.
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I don't touch curbs at WSIR, still have the same problem. I pound 4-5 curbs a lap at Buttonwillow, same problem. I sip Cris at Autoclub, same problem. I **** twins at Thunderhill, same problem.
#173
Think about it. The difference between a fast driver and one who's 3 seconds behind could simply be higher corner entry speeds. In a 2 minute lap the slower guy may be a total of 2 seconds longer on the brakes and 5 seconds shorter at WOT. Sure the faster guy may be spending 1 sec longer on the gas on the 15 sec main straight, leading to higher peak temps in the studs ... however 2* less timing at the topend can mean 100*F higher EGTs which would heat up the studs more than the extra 1 sec on the gas.
#174
I talked to the machinist of OTS about, that my business puts a little money in for fun. They do European Auto Cross with a FIA certified 1300kg and around 500hp monster build from scratch:
They run a GT35R on a 2l Ford Duratec engine at 30psi. The turbo hangs down on a SS tubular manifold. He said to use stainless studs, not hardened steel. The properties of steel are just not right: the expansion is different than the manifold material, plus is glows earlier and becomes soft. Although they take the engine apart after every weekend, they have no loosening in between practice and race sessions so there is plenty of heat cycling.
They run v-bands for the downpipe connection and are going that route for the turbo to manifold connection as well, just because it is so much easier.
If I don't fix this issue, I am going to get a TIAL housing and have him make me a tubular and modifies downpipe and some v-bands. The manifold would not be cheap 1-off, but alot cheaper if more are interested.
They run a GT35R on a 2l Ford Duratec engine at 30psi. The turbo hangs down on a SS tubular manifold. He said to use stainless studs, not hardened steel. The properties of steel are just not right: the expansion is different than the manifold material, plus is glows earlier and becomes soft. Although they take the engine apart after every weekend, they have no loosening in between practice and race sessions so there is plenty of heat cycling.
They run v-bands for the downpipe connection and are going that route for the turbo to manifold connection as well, just because it is so much easier.
If I don't fix this issue, I am going to get a TIAL housing and have him make me a tubular and modifies downpipe and some v-bands. The manifold would not be cheap 1-off, but alot cheaper if more are interested.
#177
Their manifold is stainless so fabricating the studs from that same material helps. I have a cast BEGI-S and a cast housing, but I dont think cast studs exist/will work?!
#179
Preliminary Resbond results are in!
Had a track day last Thurday. Lots of driving, off which one hour was non-stop save for some slow laps because I still need to get my cooling together.
So, yesterday I unloaded the car and checked the studs. The single one stud that came loose last time I put together and applied Resbond to the stud before putting it back in the manifold is still tight. I cannot spin the washer. I can on most other studs - haven't checked all: heatshield is still on.
The one that is tight is the front top stud - the one that actually carries alot of weight and was loose every single other time. So I am sort of thinking this Resbond will help in a way.
So, I am going to do next week:
1) Resurface the flanges of the turbo and manifold (both sides)
2) Put new machined stainless M10x1.5 studs in manifold with Resbond
3) Use whatever nuts the guys from OTS use, with Resbond
4) Meanwhile new exhaust gasket and exhaust nuts are going on.
And run at Spa Francorchamps the week after.
So, yesterday I unloaded the car and checked the studs. The single one stud that came loose last time I put together and applied Resbond to the stud before putting it back in the manifold is still tight. I cannot spin the washer. I can on most other studs - haven't checked all: heatshield is still on.
The one that is tight is the front top stud - the one that actually carries alot of weight and was loose every single other time. So I am sort of thinking this Resbond will help in a way.
So, I am going to do next week:
1) Resurface the flanges of the turbo and manifold (both sides)
2) Put new machined stainless M10x1.5 studs in manifold with Resbond
3) Use whatever nuts the guys from OTS use, with Resbond
4) Meanwhile new exhaust gasket and exhaust nuts are going on.
And run at Spa Francorchamps the week after.