[eschaider]

In the 60's we had some very smart people explain why drag cars could not exceed 160 in the quartermile. They had some very impressive math to back up their representation. Today many cars exceed 160 in the quarter mile. Lots of math doesn't prove anything in the real world if you do not understand the basic underlying physical phenomena you are attempting to model.

Bill Miller is absolutely correct in his comments about street usage. Additionally there are no Funny Car or T/F engines that use anything but aluminum rods today for a very important reason and it isn't weight, it is strength! The beam bending strength of an aluminum rod dwarfs any other rod.

In the FWIW bucket for those who think Titanium is lighter than Aluminum, the density of Titanium is 4.5g/cc and the density of Aluminum is 2.7g/cc. The use of a four function calculator will show that Aluminum is 60% the weight of Titanium or said another way Titanium is almost twice as heavy as Aluminum.


Ed