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Re: Why Cast iron, Any metallurgists ?
Posted to Technical Theory Forum on 12/4/2003

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Exhaust headers have been problematic for years - mostly due to thermal and vibrational stress causing cracks. The cast iron headers have a lot of strength of materials, and are quite heat conductive ... Login to read more.