RE: SS EM Studs

["Dupree, Jim" <dupree@alldata.com>]

I wonder if the OE studs are too strong, as in they don't have any give to
them. They snap instead of giving a little. 
I have done a lot of turbo and NA manifolds and they seemed to work pretty
well after they warped once and were resurfaced. I always replaced all the
studs and they did not seem to come back leaking again. But since it has
been a few years (5-6) since I did many of them the additional age may have
raised the failure rate significantly or the ones I did at the dealership
did not come back to the dealer when they failed again. I guess when I get
my turbo engine in the 4kq I'll get to experience it first hand. I'll
probable go with the OE parts since I can buy them wholesale.
Jim Dupree

		-----Original Message-----
		From:	Pat Martin [mailto:mardkins@email.msn.com]
		Sent:	Friday, December 10, 1999 8:31 AM
		To:	one@humanspeakers.com
		Cc:	Audi Fans
		Subject:	Re: SS EM Studs

		Presumably not much.  My experience has been that the stud
will break before
		stripping out the head.  Now if Fred is right and the ss is
weaker I cannot
		see ANY reason to convert.  It has not been my experience
that rusty studs
		have been the problem.

		Pat Martin


		>
		> But aren't steel studs stronger than the aluminum head,
too?
		>
		> --
		> Huw Powell