Almost blew up Turbo Slant

Bill Dedman said
Once again, I am disseminating erroneous information, but this time, it's not my fault. I called the tech line at Summit and got a tech who was willing to look up the stud issue and he told me that the blurb about these studs being 220,000psi material was on ALL the ARP informational blurbs, and was NOT true in this (225) case. He said that they were 200,000psi, just as you said, Brandon. He said he'd notify the management there, and get that as copy changed. We'll see...

Then I asked him whether TRW was still offering a "Power Forged" forged piston for the 225 slant six (or, ANY slant six, for that matter,) and he looked it up and reported that, no, none was available.

So, there is the word from the horse's mouth...

Sorry for all the confusion!:banghead:

:cheers: S'all good! lol I'd hate to know how many times I've been wrong. Sorry I didn't post when I seen it on my lunch I could have stopped you on the pistons :) They have been discontinued for years. Ryan either got his NOS, or, if it's the engine I think it is, it's a possibility he bought them new in the 90's :shock: They'd be stock comp height most likely, somewheres of high 7, low 8's as well. Tom's right though, 9:1 would probably be good with 50/50 93/110 and a sweet tune.

I was surprised a little when you said the studs were 220k, but I guess I shouldn't be surprised that it was just a blanket type statement.

Also, there's a group buy that WAS in the forming over at .org for the 220k studs, pretty sure it fell apart when this was found out:

ball park prices are $250 per set at the 5 set order and just under $200 for the 15 set order. 6-8 week lead time

HOWEVER this was also mentioned

Before they made sets specifically for the slant 6 we used the set made for the 455 Oldsmobile, maybe they offer the higher strength steel for that application.

I guess if it is really a priority, one could look into it.

Oh, and for those of you that mentioned MLS, here's the word on the street on that: http://slantsix.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=57083