WRD Forged Pistons and Rods Upgrade Discussion Thread

[Eurospec]

Yes and no.

The DR650's are just a std mitsu TD04 housing and they are not available as ball bearing.

The DR800 and up are all TD05 garrett based turbos with various hybred wheels.

The DR1000 and 1200 are available as DBB.

I imagine the 800 could be done as a DBB, but i believe the cost of the centre housing is about US$1000 alone.

Cheers,

Ben.

[Gly]

id be keen on tdo4 setup,
whats the est. price on this?

and witch tdo4s will it be designed for? (off what car? etc.)

[bradc]

ben - yeah thats too much, gt2554r's are a better option. what are your opinions on them?

[Solardavid350]

Have you thought of putting the crank and rods though cryogenics?
I know some research has been done on this..and secret squirrel tells me its used in Formula 1.
I believe if you nitride a crank this is done with alot of heat and in a high nitrogen atmosphere causing a very thin layer of hardened surface,but can cause the crank to bend and might require straightening.
Freezing the same components in liquid nitrogen will go all the way though with no bending and completely changes the molecular structure to a smoother harder metal..
It can produce results of +20% harder and is not as expensive as it sounds.
Apparently you can do almost any metal too...so discs,blocks,head etc can all be treated.
I got some magazine around somewhere and if i can over the weekend i`ll scan it and post up.

[Goku]

Hmmmm..... Thats sounds pretty cool actually.

I'd be interested if anyone knows if there is somewhere in NZ that is doing this.

[Solardavid350]

http://www.frozensolid.co.uk/

[Goku]

For us NZ fellas interested in this, I emailed frozensolid and they returned this link for a place here that dies this process.

http://www.subzero.net.nz/index.php

[Nutter_John]

6 weeks was the lead time for the design and delivery , but I would like to hope that once these have been complete turn around should be 3 weeks max

[Kieran]

Okay guys, this thread was getting a tad messy, so I've made a copy and renamed it, so if you have any info/chat/questions about forged stuff that's not related to the stuff that WRD are developing, you can post it in the link below - Keeps everything neat and tidy.

Link:

http://www.clubvr4.com/forum/showthr...305#post254305

[Mark 4]

Any news ??

[scott.mohekey]

Did this go anywhere?

[Kieran]

Did this go anywhere?

No, sadly. Not long after the posts on this thread, WRD ceased trading.