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Old May 1, 2008 | 12:11 AM
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Originally Posted by Hydrazine
It doesn't do anything adverse to the engine. There have been countless MD spacers installed over the last 4 years without issues.

Tony
Tony, can you explain why plastic spacers are used and not metal ones?
 
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Old May 1, 2008 | 09:53 AM
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As in the snap on internal supports?
They are self retaining, self sealing and thermally non-conductive. And for reasons that are obvious and some not so obvious, and these are very important attributes to have.

That can't be done with metal supports.
Metal supports not only don't have the advantages listed above, they have several significant disadvantages associated with them because other things must be done to compensate for the self retaining and self sealing aspects. But then that introduces other potential problems.

The plastic internal supports are a much better solution.
 
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Old May 1, 2008 | 11:06 AM
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Originally Posted by Hydrazine
Feel free to call me if you have any questions during your install. (661) 993-5111

I'll be running some more exhaust component dynos this weekend but I'm always available.

Tony
Haha...I think if I pulled you away from working on the exhaust about half this board would want me murdered.
 
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Old May 1, 2008 | 12:30 PM
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Originally Posted by Hydrazine
As in the snap on internal supports?
They are self retaining, self sealing and thermally non-conductive. And for reasons that are obvious and some not so obvious, and these are very important attributes to have.

That can't be done with metal supports.
Metal supports not only don't have the advantages listed above, they have several significant disadvantages associated with them because other things must be done to compensate for the self retaining and self sealing aspects. But then that introduces other potential problems.

The plastic internal supports are a much better solution.
During our plenum spacer install one of the plastic spacers fell out and out of 3 people nobody noticed until we played back the video.
 
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Old May 1, 2008 | 12:34 PM
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Originally Posted by Nappy
Haha...I think if I pulled you away from working on the exhaust about half this board would want me murdered.
^^^ Shoot this man!!!!

Just Kidding!!!

Tony has a hidden secret that not many know about... when he's in his shop alone, he morphs into octoman - he actually has 8 arms and can trouble shoot over the phone while mocking up new products, while dyno testing prototypes!

How do you think he got such a great reputation for customer support and @ss-kickin' mods?... No ordinary human can do that
 
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