please help me find stainless exhaust studs!

[vwnuts@yahoo.com (Anthony Pelletier)]

The only reason I know this is I changed a friends
turbo in his mazda mx-6 (probe gt pretty much) & I had
to pull some studs off.  Even with the manifold cherry
red from an acetoline(sp) torch & wax I still broke
all 4.  I went to drill em...no dice, I kept breaking
drill bits in a drill press.  He finally just bought a
new manifold.  Granted these were 10 years old.  Where
are the metallurgy people on the list?  Ron P?  any
comments.


--- Allyn <amalventano1@comcast.net> wrote:
> so what material do we want? hrm... i could go down
> to the prototype and get some nuclear grade
> alloy (j/k, heh). i would figure the stainless
> wouldnt need to be very strong. the mere fact that
> it
> doesnt rust to hell would make removal torque
> minimal (no siezing).
> Al
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Anthony Pelletier" <vwnuts@yahoo.com>
> To: "Robbie Cotner" <robw_z@yahoo.com>
> Cc: <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
> Sent: Friday, August 09, 2002 2:47 PM
> Subject: Re: please help me find stainless exhaust
> studs!
> 
> 
> > M8x1.25  Why do you want stainless?  It's more
> brittle
> > & likely to break in the future.  Plus if you do
> break
> > it, its more work to drill out.
> > --- Robbie Cotner <robw_z@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > I've already checked all my local hardware and
> auto
> > > parts stores, no luck finding the exhaust
> > > manifold-to-head studs.  I've tried
> McMaster-Carr,
> > > but they only have black oxide steel exhaust
> studs.
> > > Lastly, does anyone with ETKA or anything know
> the
> > > size of these studs?  I'm pretty sure they're
> M10,
> > > but I don't know any other specs-
> > >
> > > thanks in advance,
> > >
> > > Rob
> > >
> > >
> > >
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