Stainless, of a grade sufficient enough to polish, is MUCH more likely to crack, have seen many drivers\commuters hold up well, but big power, big temp applications are not an ideal set up for SS housings, just an opinion I developed working at a turbo shop
Stainless, of a grade sufficient enough to polish, is MUCH more likely to crack, have seen many drivers\commuters hold up well, but big power, big temp applications are not an ideal set up for SS housings, just an opinion I developed working at a turbo shop
With Stainless like 304 the cheep stuff most people use to make hedder pipes you would be right . But the HTT ss13 is made from a "mix " of stainless and is not 304 . The stainless alloy was made to work in very high heat 2200 degs . Have you seen a htt ss13 with a crack yet ? As for the opinion you developed there only a hand full of stainless turbin housings that have ever been made and all but the htt / Bulleseye turbin housings were made from 304 . You need to go back to school oke:
Unless the housing is leaking exhaust gasses the cracks will not hurt it, my turbo has a few little cracks in the housing but they do not harm it. A lot of people on here will agree and all the turbo shops I have talked to agree.
With Stainless like 304 the cheep stuff most people use to make hedder pipes you would be right . But the HTT ss13 is made from a "mix " of stainless and is not 304 . The stainless alloy was made to work in very high heat 2200 degs . Have you seen a htt ss13 with a crack yet ? As for the opinion you developed there only a hand full of stainless turbin housings that have ever been made and all but the htt / Bulleseye turbin housings were made from 304 . You need to go back to school oke:
O.K. Your right, HTT / Bullseye make housings inpervious to cracking and I was just making it up as I go, :blahblah1: I still think that as a driver/commuter a person will see much fewer problems, big power/big temp applications are a diff story, if you need the shiney penis extention or the wow look what I have thing to sleep at night thats o.k., thats your opinion, oke: I will not be spending extra $$ on stainless housings
Secondly.... aren't the SS housings still cast? I mean how do they make them? Don't they cast them? Seems like people are using the word cast like it's a cut when it would seem all the turbine housings in question are cast...
They are cast like the others just from a different material. The confusion might be because people lease off the "iron" when they refer to the Borg cast iron housings.
Chris