my dad and I are debating this. Does it hurt an alum. intake to lay flat on a shelf? He says I need to hang it so it will not warp. Any truth to this?

Jeremy

 

It will be fine.

 

There is no way it will warp!!

 

cranks are the only thing i ever heard of that needs to be placed a certin way to prevent warpage. of course we all know that glass over time will flow, or sag.

 

Yes, but a very viscuous liquid isn't quite the same thing as a solid. heh.

 

Personally, I like to keep my crank standing straight up.

Take that for what it's worth.

 

vader i wouldn't touch that with a 10 foot pole, so to speak.

 

Hey I thought this was supposed to be only car talk!

 

thats what I thought, and I always store my cranks straight up

 

Metal does not warp, only wood does, Thats why some people store their cranks standing strait up!!

 

wait are you guys serious? my eagle crank is standing straight up...


but the one in my car is NOT (duh) you cant be serious about cranks standing straight up in storage it makes no sense...


... or does it?

 

That's a myth, actually, although it's true about solid pitch.

 

Glass flows even over a period of time as short as a few decades... the glass in the old medieval cathedral stained glass windows has had to be replaced several times over its life so far..... glass is actually a liqid by all scientific definitions, just a very thick one.

Aluminum however is not a liquid. I've never heard that about intakes. Somebody better tell all the intake mfrs to quit shipping them that way and storing them on shelves and so forth.

I had a cute little gewgaw hanging around for years, a great conversation piece; it was the thing for shiping a plumbicon tube, the image tube for some old TV cameras (the successor to the image orthicon tube), which had real fragile internal parts that could get bent if it got dinged the wrong way, so they had to be shipped in the upright position, no matter what. It was a frame you could nail inside a wooden crate, with a frame inside that on pivots so it could rotate, and a frame inside that one also on pivots, and the little tube that the plumbicon itself lived in had a lead weight in the bottom; it didn't matter what position the outer frame was held in, the tube always stayed upright. Maybe they should ship intakes in those.

 

Actually glass is an amorphous solid, not a liquid.

 

If a crank's sitting on a table, it's probably only supported by two points, a counterweight for example.

In your engine, I would guess (I would hope) that it's supported more evenly by more than just two points.

 

<b> (I would hope) </b>

your hopes are justified. the crank sits on top of the windage tray, rides on the main studs. thats where it goes, right?

 

Not mine, its right behind the canooter valve.

 

Let's just call it a fluid and leave it at that.

 

Don't give up so easily. Check this out.

http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amorphous