Head Stud Removal
04-29-2003, 10:49 PM
#16
Drifting
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica">Originally posted by Chris Cervelli:
<strong> What you should do is forget about the Raceware studs. They don't help at all anyway. </strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica">Really? So you really don't think that they provide more clamping force than the old, very heat cycled, stock studs huh? The studs would never fatigue would they?
You have never seen a 951 with the wick turned up lift the head off the block and blow the head gasket? This same motor (bone stock 86) with no other change than the head studs squeeze 24 psi with no trouble and win it's class in SCCA ITE two years running?
Interesting.
<strong> What you should do is forget about the Raceware studs. They don't help at all anyway. </strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica">Really? So you really don't think that they provide more clamping force than the old, very heat cycled, stock studs huh? The studs would never fatigue would they?
You have never seen a 951 with the wick turned up lift the head off the block and blow the head gasket? This same motor (bone stock 86) with no other change than the head studs squeeze 24 psi with no trouble and win it's class in SCCA ITE two years running?
Interesting.
