A few more ideas ... Lug Nuts for Fuchs, Horn button & cap for '67 mahogany steering wheel, outer pulley half for fan/alternator, sprocket for cams and chain wheels, 46 mm nut for the cams, and wrist pins ... and how about a flywheel and starter ring gear?


Nader, do they make double-row chains out of Ti, or M8 x 25 mm bolts?
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Warren Hall
1973 911S Targa
1992 Dodge Dakota 5.2 4X4 parts hauler

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Warren, I think that if they don't already make those bolts, they can probably fabricate them if you send them specifications. As for Ti chains, I think that would be too complicated for them. But you can always e-mail them and ask, I've found them to be prompt and curteous with replies to my inquiries. And their quality of work is fairly decent (for bike parts). I know in the bicycle industry that Ti chains were marginally lighter and prohibitively expensive, so they never really caught on.

Maybe an OT reply--but if you haven't checked it out yet, the following site has a an excellent description of the Kursk raising project. Take a look at:

http://www.kursk.strana.ru http://www.pelicanparts.com/support/...oilet_claw.gif

George 86T

Is this a money making thing?

Warren, on the Ti gears and chains; Titanium isn’t so good here. High local loading brings out some bad sliding characteristics of Ti. People are working on overcoming this though; with iron coatings, nitriding and such. As Sherwood points out, on balance steel is still hard to beat for many applications.
Disk Brake pistons. That would be a good one for machined Ti.

Adam & Warren, Thanks for the tips on the SR-71 books. I have a couple of Brian Shul’s SR-71 books. He piloted them for quite a few years and took his 35mm camera along for some incredible shots.
So these book you guys have; I’m guessing they’re more technical? I haven’t been able to learn enough about these since I saw one up close at the local flight museum. The thing that really intrigued me was the drone vehicle riding piggy back. Many of my engineering books mention different types of ram-jets but I didn’t know that any SCram jets (or SCRAM-jet) existed in a meaningful way, until I saw that parabolic conic nose on that drone (D-21) . I knew instantly what it was, and was rather awe-struck.

Aside: Here "SC" isn’t a marketing term for super-carrera, (heh heh) but rather a bit more meaningful “Sonic Compression” ram jet. Talk about high compression ratios or lots of boost; this thing takes the sonic shock wave and redirects it to a focal point in the engine for some awesome thermal efficiency.
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Venezian - No, not a money-making thing. It's a "If I'm going to have something made for myself, why not have several made and help out the Porsche bethren?" thing. I have no time for another job!

This particular Ti 'brick' is probably to thick to make rocker arms (too much waste) from, at 1.875" thick ... I think it will make a nice mount for three accelerometers, since it is nicely milled 90 degrees on four sides, and the other two are still quite unmarked since it left the foundry!

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Warren Hall
1973 911S Targa
1992 Dodge Dakota 5.2 4X4 parts hauler

I could go for some ti exhaust studs...
No...really...I would like to buy a set.

Tim in Sac

Hello

I know a company making Titanium parts by several methodes including erroding and erroding forged parts. They say they work in the 0,00001 mm area. The bad thing is they are in germany and work for good costumers only ( Medicenical, Nasa, Aircrafts and Military ). So if money does matter better avoid them and buy in GB.

The first AL coin was given to the inventor and to prduce it they spend many gold coins into voltas.

Grüsse

How about a titanium Cool Collar clamp? Sorry, couldn't resist!

-Eric

Ha! LOL. Titanium has really low thermal conductivity. . .so ya, it would be great in the c-c application.

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Hate to break it to you guys, but Kirsk was made out of HY Steel. What we need to get is an old Alfa class sub. They used TI for the hull because of it being non-magenetic and also it allowed them to dive the sub deeper than our torpedos could go. Nice theory, someone starts shooting you and you head somewhere that the bullets can't follow.

That said, I wonder what TI rods, rod bolts and rockers would do to the redline of a mostly stock 3.2. If I go this far I also will cam and other things.

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Ted Stringer
nuke3@juno.com
'84 911 Targa aka pocketrocket