Guest 81na ZX Posted January 16, 2007 Share Posted January 16, 2007 Glass melts at 1400-1600 C. About 2500F. Coolant boils WAY before that If you have any brass in the valve train, it'll melt at about 900C. AL melts all the way down at 660C (1220 F). Glass is preatty strong stuff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
big-phil Posted January 16, 2007 Share Posted January 16, 2007 If I had the money to spend you might see it under my hood, but then again......if I had the money, you might see spinners on my truck? well, maybe not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexideways Posted January 16, 2007 Share Posted January 16, 2007 If I had the money to spend you might see it under my hood, but then again......if I had the money, you might see spinners on my truck? well, maybe not. If I had the money to spend on silly stuff like that, you would'nt see my car cause, I'd have spent it on making my car go FAST instead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
veritech-z Posted January 16, 2007 Share Posted January 16, 2007 I wasn't so much concerned about the glass melting really. Here's an example of a mysterious glass incedent that I actually have a scar from: I used to work in a restaurant, bussing tables. We would put the glasses in an overhead tray thing when they came out of the dishwasher. Anyway, I was moving some glasses (typical soda type glass you'd get in a restaurant, not a thin beer or wine glass) from one to the next to make room, and one of them just exploded in my hand with no warning. A big chunk cut the crap out of my wrist, and I'll have the scar from that forever. The only explanation I could come up with was that the dishwashing machine got them so hot, so fast, that when this glass cooled off in the open air it broke. It was the only time it ever happened to me, but that was a vivid memory of a mysterious glass failure involving both water and heat. So even if this is a different type of glass, my opinion of glass in this application has been "colored" so to speak. Another odd glass failure I experienced involved trying to grind a hole in the bottom of my side door window to rivet on the little window track feet that kept coming unglued. (I know, I've had better ideas than this, and yes, I know that automotive window glass is not the same thing as what these hoses are made of, however...) I was using one of those little bits that's like a ball with diamond dust all over it on a dremel, and I noticed that it was setting up a strange noise so I took the bit away from the glass. about five seconds later, the glass shattered all over the garage floor with no external stimulus. It was just laying on the garage floor, and then pshhhh! all over the place. Pretty wierd. I'm pretty sure that one was my fault though... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators RTz Posted January 16, 2007 Administrators Share Posted January 16, 2007 I was wondering if it's hard for the manufacturers of those to control the spring rate consistency from spring to spring due to the nature of how fiberglass is made (like the resin amount and distribution)? I'm not a materials specialist, that's just my layman's curiosity. Max, Not sure about the C5/C6, but when you buy a FG spring for a C4, it will have a colored sticker (I think 3 possibilities) and that is the identifier for where that particular spring 'finished' at. The color codes correspond with where the mounting shims must be to retain factory ride height. ..and yes, Pop is correct... FG springs started on Vettes in the 80's... '84 to be exact. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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