We thought it might be interesting to use these Ford connecting rods to demonstrate how metallurgy has changed during 60 years of hot rodding. At the left is a stock '32 flathead rod borrowed from ...

Having titanium rods and screws fused to individual vertebrae, and cadaver bone placed in between the spaces hoping for growth, and losing two pints of blood and 15 pounds, sounds pretty gruesome. But ...

Titanium alloys have very high tensile strength and toughness (even at extreme temperatures). They are light weight, have extraordinary corrosion resistance and the ability to withstand extreme ...

One of the most important decisions youll make when building your next engine is what rods to use. Whether its a slightly warmed-over stock rebuild or an all-out strip-stormer, any time you increase ...

Titanium has a low density and is a strong, lustrous, corrosion-resistant (including sea water, aqua regia and chlorine) transition metal with a silver color. Titanium can be alloyed with iron, ...

You saw [Chris] cast aluminium on the cheap using Kinetic Sand a few weeks ago, didn’t you? He recently got his meaty hands on some titanium through the magic of modern transactional methods and was ...