What did you do to your Kia Stinger today?

[Brichinelo]

Popped my devil claw canards on. Painted them red to keep my Darth Vader theme going with the red accents lol loving these

 

[amehring1982]

Took my wheels off to go get powdercoated tomorrow.

 

[Ric 'Ochet]

Went for a drive..and took some shots…

 

[rpoffen]

I’ve had a slow leak in the LR tire for a while, so decided to do something about it.
Took off the wheel And located the culprit, a nail. Pulled it out and patched the tire.
While it was up on jack stands, I crawled underneath and made sure the connections and clamps on the MBRP exhaust were still tight, they were.
Good to go.

 

[JSolo]

^^Nice to have a tire machine and balancer in the garage. I just use the rope repair kits until I can get it to the shop.

 

[RogueIV]

Swapped back to my summer wheel/tire combo and did a quick exterior clean. No time for pics though.

 

[G70LEbyAdoom]

In case anyone is wondering what it looks like when you are looking down the metaphorical barrel of the stinger.

 

[Brichinelo]

In case anyone is wondering what it looks like when you are looking down the metaphorical barrel of the stinger.

What are you about to do ?

 

[AtomicGTL]

What are you about to do ?

LS swap

 

[G70LEbyAdoom]

What are you about to do ?

This picture was actually taken last friday, my dealer is replacing my motor under warranty. I just thought that this was a pretty neat angle that not many of us have seen.

 

[G70LEbyAdoom]

LS swap

In the future when the Lambda-2's are hard to come by for sure.

 

[Brichinelo]

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This picture was actually taken last friday, my dealer is replacing my motor under warranty. I just thought that this was a pretty neat angle that not many of us have seen.

Very cool angle.

 

[CeramicGT001]

This picture was actually taken last friday, my dealer is replacing my motor under warranty. I just thought that this was a pretty neat angle that not many of us have seen.

What happened to the motor? Any issue with the mods you have?

 

[G70LEbyAdoom]

What happened to the motor? Any issue with the mods you have?

No issues with the mods,
The short answer for what happened is that the heat in the cabin went out and kia could not figure out what was causing it so they approved a new motor to be put in under warranty, and they are going to take my old motor and try and figure out what happened.

 

[CeramicGT001]

No issues with the mods,
The short answer for what happened is that the heat in the cabin went out and kia could not figure out what was causing it so they approved a new motor to be put in under warranty, and they are going to take my old motor and try and figure out what happened.

Wow that’s great news about them honoring the warranty, hope it all works out.

 

[G70LEbyAdoom]

Wow that’s great news about them honoring the warranty, hope it all works out.

Thanks, it should be back together in 2-3 days hopefully. its been over a month now and I miss driving my car.

 

[cncBilly]

Send me $800, and I'll make you titanium happy.

I saw this interesting little vid this morning. Now I’m all the more confused re titanium.

 

[Ohiocruiser]

I saw this interesting little vid this morning. Now I’m all the more confused re titanium.

What is confusing you?

 

[Hawk853]

I saw this interesting little vid this morning. Now I’m all the more confused re titanium.

Titanium and Aluminum alloys are stronger than the base metals, but are stronger for a given material mass than some heavier steels. I think I’ve seen aluminum being 30% stronger than mild steel for the same weight. So a 3/16” aluminum plate might be stronger and lighter than a 1/8” steel plate.

Also, compressive strength and tensile strength are two different characteristics.

Concrete has high compressive strength, but needs steel reinforcement to give it tensile strength.

Some metals while weaker than others at room temperatures hold together better at high temps seen in engines.

There are good write ups on Supertech and Ferrea valves’ websites that describe strength and weight of different alloys under high heats.

Similarly, connecting rods can be aluminum in a drag race engine, but will need replaced sooner (they’ll also be huge and require more clearance), titanium will be lighter for the same yield as forged chromoly, but if spending thousands of dollars more than once on rods isn’t in a person’s budget, the forged steel rods are going to be much more durable and last.

I wonder what practical purpose those ‘super’ steels serve in the video. If they followed those tests up with bend tests it would tell a more complete story.

There’s probably an engineer around that could talk more concisely on the subject.

 

[Ohiocruiser]

Titanium and Aluminum alloys are stronger than the base metals, but are stronger for a given material mass than some heavier steels. I think I’ve seen aluminum being 30% stronger than mild steel for the same weight. So a 3/16” aluminum plate might be stronger and lighter than a 1/8” steel plate.

Also, compressive strength and tensile strength are two different characteristics.

Concrete has high compressive strength, but needs steel reinforcement to give it tensile strength.

Some metals while weaker than others at room temperatures hold together better at high temps seen in engines.

There are good write ups on Supertech and Ferrea valves’ websites that describe strength and weight of different alloys under high heats.

Similarly, connecting rods can be aluminum in a drag race engine, but will need replaced sooner (they’ll also be huge and require more clearance), titanium will be lighter for the same yield as forged chromoly, but if spending thousands of dollars more than once on rods isn’t in a person’s budget, the forged steel rods are going to be much more durable and last.

I wonder what practical purpose those ‘super’ steels serve in the video. If they followed those tests up with bend tests it would tell a more complete story.

There’s probably an engineer around that could talk more concisely on the subject.

That's why that video is pretty silly. Comparing hardened steel with pure titanium in the press is pointless. To put it simple, grade5 titanium (mostly used for auto applications) is "little stronger " than 8.8 grade steel, while being 40% lighter