Stainless Steel Valves?

maverick32 · Post by **maverick32** » Thu May 24, 2007 12:01 pm

Anyone know where to get stainless steel valves from? and prices

mike684 · Post by **mike684** » Thu May 24, 2007 6:06 pm

You do NOT want to even think about using stainless for any high stress application as it just isnt strong enough. If any joker does try to sell you some tell him to getifa!!

RedexRobB · Post by **RedexRobB** » Thu May 24, 2007 8:04 pm

Even titanium isnt that great apparently, very brittle from what ive heard and the only performance you get extra is that they weigh less, nothing else.

rmkd177 · Post by **rmkd177** » Thu May 24, 2007 11:32 pm

Mike684 and robB where do you get your information from

ring REC (race engine components) speak to Paul and let him tell you how many WSB and BSB use stainless 'ONE PIECE'valves then listen to him explain what the 'BENEFITS' are

RedexRobB · Post by **RedexRobB** » Fri May 25, 2007 7:59 am

Is this where i tel them to 'getifa'?

I read that about titanium valves in a performance bikes magazine, they had an article on a big engine tuner who did loads of R30 engines, cant remember his name, but he said he didnt see the benefit of titanium valves because they were brittle, very difficult to manufacture, and the only performance gain was a lighter valve which didnt even give any extra revs or power. Ill dig it up today as im home from uni, ill scan it in for you.

maverick32 · Post by **maverick32** » Fri May 25, 2007 11:43 am

Ok sounds like I've started a bit of a debate here....
Would be good to see the article form the "tunner"

Cheers

RedexRobB · Post by **RedexRobB** » Sat May 26, 2007 1:35 pm

The 'tuner' being Tony Scott. This is where i got my information on titanium valves from.

Ballsout Racing · Post by **Ballsout Racing** » Sun May 27, 2007 10:10 pm

mike684 wrote:You do NOT want to even think about using stainless for any high stress application as it just isnt strong enough. If any joker does try to sell you some tell him to getifa!!

Maverick, a bit of advice, do not use advice from to people on forums without doing some proper research, speak to the people that know, and that includes the likes of RMKD.

I use Dynotech for my ZXR race engines

RedexRobB · Post by **RedexRobB** » Mon May 28, 2007 2:25 am

My comment was just topical discussion

mike684 · Post by **mike684** » Mon May 28, 2007 11:01 am

I agree with getting advice from a tuner. My opinion is one of concern though. If race teams are really using stainless then I'd love to know what grade the valves are made of. Any readilly available stainless grades would be much too soft and the valve stems stretch far too much.

Are these valves some sort of mmc? Personnaly I would have thought titanium would have been the way to go for the weight loss in a high performance engine.