anything you can do to strengthen the rear iron where it cracks by the upper dowel near the oil filter pedistil.

i was thinking of having it profesionaly welded, it would need to be pre heated and i am not sure if that would mess with the hardness of the iron.
also welding it could warp the metal.

i would just buy an s5 iron but i have my irons bridge ported so thats not an option right now.

i will at least have the block pinned

 

by the time u had it welded and strengthened in anyway u could of had a s5 iron with a bridgeport

 

i am not buying an s5 iron. for now its out of the question. so i need to make do with what i have.

if i explode my iron then i will upgrade

 

i have that same damn prob, i am a little werry about it, but i will hope for the best and that she stays put. mine is a hairline crack so i might be fine.

 

J-rat made ~430rwhp on his reman s4 engine (with the weaker iron) and only blew it because I think a wastegate line popped off.

 

Haha, you'd do best to avoid using *that* iron...

 

+ eleventy million

 

Yeah, now I am a 550 HP FC tranny shredder..... Sorry, pissed that I just lunched another tranny GOING TO THE ******* STORE!!!!....



OP, lets have some fun.... Did you actually break the iron? Ya did, didnt ya!

God I dont want to sack up for a dog box....

 

i havnt broken this one but i am sure it wont be a problem

 

Haha...

 

Just go until it blows.

There's not much you can do easily, and anything you *do* won't be cheap and risks damaging the iron.

Use it till it breaks or change it now.

 

sounds like a plan

 

i only have about 260 whp and im on my second tranny in 3 years. But not bad for how hard i abuse the tranny during drift practice.

 

I was thinking maybe where the emissions rack bolts down, put 4 studs in there,drill that pattern into a 3/8" thick piece of bar steel, and secure with nuts, which might prevent overall engine twisting which should prevent rear iron breaks, however, i'm no engineer.

 

Why can't you put a FD iron on, and drill/tap for the TII intake bolt holes ?

 

I've been running 20psi on my s4 iron for a couple months now (a few hundred very hard miles) with no problems yet, running only race fuel.

 

talk to bryan at bnr.....

 

No need if you're going to add more dowels anyways...


-Ted

 

Runners are way off.