F6_jase Donating Members 322 Member For: 16y 6m 4d Gender: Male Location: Mooloolaba, QLD Posted 24/10/08 10:24 AM Share Posted 24/10/08 10:24 AM Stainless steel withstands higher temperatures and is stronger whish is why they use it for exhaust manifolds, aluminium is a great heat dissipator which is why its used for intercoolers and heat sinks on amps and is lighter as well, so when its used to manufacture plenums it keeps the weight down and actually removes some of the heat from the air charge passing through it. theres no reason you couldnt use stainless but the work and time involved in machining/cutting the stainless for the mainifold section would be far greater. Link to comment https://www.fordxr6turbo.com/forum/topic/50974-plenum-made-out-of-stainless/page/2/#findComment-755068 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bda12pleaseu Member 94 Member For: 17y 4m Gender: Male Location: newcastle Posted 11/12/08 10:28 AM Share Posted 11/12/08 10:28 AM (edited) jus like to add my 2 cents. I am in the process of making a plenum (out of ally) but would like to say it would be far easier to make a box type 1 out off s/s due to its ease of folding and welding ability unlike ally. folding thick a piece of ally say 3mm or more starts to get tricky because of things u prob dont care bout but to puy it simply unless u do some calcs it will more then likely crack rendering it useless hence why the process west 1 I belive is cnc milled in parts and welded with little or no forming needed. however for all the reasons stated above and yous are absolutly right in what has been said in previous posts I think it would be outright silly to use s/s, by far the hardest bit if it was made out of s/s would be the holes to match up with the lower half of manifold im sic of drilling them.there I said it... Edited 11/12/08 10:34 AM by bda12pleaseu Link to comment https://www.fordxr6turbo.com/forum/topic/50974-plenum-made-out-of-stainless/page/2/#findComment-784790 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tocchi Sandtrap Motorsport Donating Members 2,055 Member For: 16y 4m 25d Gender: Male Location: Perth Posted 11/12/08 10:46 AM Share Posted 11/12/08 10:46 AM if you retain the cast alloy bottom half, and do a steel half, you will discover heat and cooling properties of the two metals are different.so you will have leaks Link to comment https://www.fordxr6turbo.com/forum/topic/50974-plenum-made-out-of-stainless/page/2/#findComment-784804 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bda12pleaseu Member 94 Member For: 17y 4m Gender: Male Location: newcastle Posted 11/12/08 11:03 AM Share Posted 11/12/08 11:03 AM if you retain the cast alloy bottom half, and do a steel half, you will discover heat and cooling properties of the two metals are different.so you will have leaks very true wise words both have very differant thermal coefficients of expansion Link to comment https://www.fordxr6turbo.com/forum/topic/50974-plenum-made-out-of-stainless/page/2/#findComment-784821 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevo Member 286 Member For: 17y 4m 2d Gender: Male Location: Wanneroo, Perth WA Posted 11/12/08 11:39 PM Share Posted 11/12/08 11:39 PM haha, just let him do it guys. he is the jack-ass that posted up for ideas and is disregarding what every single person on here is telling him.Why the f*ck dont you like any of the Nizpro, process west plenums? that's the best equipment you can buy for our cars !go ahead lukedohc I want to see you have a go at this one haha Link to comment https://www.fordxr6turbo.com/forum/topic/50974-plenum-made-out-of-stainless/page/2/#findComment-785071 Share on other sites More sharing options...
XRDOSE BIGRED Donating Members 1,410 Member For: 18y 27d Gender: Male Location: Sth East Melb Posted 12/12/08 01:51 AM Share Posted 12/12/08 01:51 AM (edited) he asked for everyones opinions and he doesnt like what he hears so he's gona do it anyway! What was the point of asking us then? goodluck sunshine! Edited 12/12/08 01:51 AM by XRDOSE Link to comment https://www.fordxr6turbo.com/forum/topic/50974-plenum-made-out-of-stainless/page/2/#findComment-785156 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiKa Donating Members 4,243 Member For: 18y 7m 29d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne, VIC Posted 12/12/08 05:10 AM Share Posted 12/12/08 05:10 AM You lern from your mistakes, so let him... Give it a go mate. Hell if it works 'properly' and is cheap, make me one... Link to comment https://www.fordxr6turbo.com/forum/topic/50974-plenum-made-out-of-stainless/page/2/#findComment-785251 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MRDOSE Member 1,195 Member For: 17y 3m 21d Gender: Male Location: Sydney Posted 12/12/08 05:19 AM Share Posted 12/12/08 05:19 AM yeah do it... cant wait to see the look on the leading manufactures of plenums faces when they see just how much better it looks Link to comment https://www.fordxr6turbo.com/forum/topic/50974-plenum-made-out-of-stainless/page/2/#findComment-785256 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Russ F6 Member 641 Member For: 19y 10m 6d Gender: Male Location: Newcastle NSW Posted 12/12/08 05:39 AM Share Posted 12/12/08 05:39 AM Save your money and buy a PC with SPELL CHECK Link to comment https://www.fordxr6turbo.com/forum/topic/50974-plenum-made-out-of-stainless/page/2/#findComment-785270 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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