Auto Racing Springs
When Performance is Everything, RCS is the only choice.
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"RCS titanium valve springs are the standard of the industry to which all titanium springs are measured. The have helped us and our customers win championships for a decade. They are simply the best."
Alan Johnson, Owner and Crew Chief, 3 Time NHRA Top Fuel Champion.
From futuristic super-cars to import racers, Formula 1 to the high efficiency cars of tomorrow, titanium suspension springs offer superior value through reduced weight and size as well as improved corrosion resistance and durability.
In racing, where performance is everything, reducing weight is always a goal. Titanium springs provide weight savings of 30 to 50%. In addition titanium springs can provide the same load carrying capacity and spring rate in a smaller envelope than steel springs. Where titanium springs can be designed in up front. Both light weight and improved volume utilization can be achieved.
Valve Springs
RCS manufactures a Titanium valve spring for Pro Stock, Top Fuel, and Alcohol drag race engines
The properties of titanium allow the design of a lighter spring with added travel and more resistance to set. Titanium valve springs are lighter than steel springs. This reduced mass and inertia increases the natural frequency of the spring. A higher natural frequency has better dynamic response at the high RPM’s of today’s performance motors.
Because titanium has a lower torsional modulus than steel. It is in effect “more springy”. Because of this titanium springs are designed with slightly larger wire but fewer coils. The result is a spring with more available travel than a steel spring of the same free length and rate. More travel allows more lift, more flow, and higher horsepower.
Titanium valve springs can be designed with more conservative stress parameters which makes the springs more resistant to set. Titanium is also more resistant to taking set at elevated temperatures. These properties yield a spring that won’t loose its seat pressure a quickly as steel springs.
Titanium springs are not “forever”, Titanium does not exhibit the same “infinite life” characteristic that carbon steel provide at low stress numbers. However for high performance-limited life applications such as racing, where the springs are replaced regularly titanium simply can’t be beat.
The titanium valve springs are also a better value. Although they cost more than the steel valve springs they will last 5 to 7 times longer. The steel springs will begin to take set during the burnout. Whereas the RCS titanium springs will last between 10 and 20 runs.