Tungsten Alloy Ballast for Vehicle

Tungsten Alloy Ballast for Vehicle

Drivers consistently report they can sense differences in how a car handles on the track if the weight on a given wheel varies only by a couple of pounds. Fine tuning a car to a given track is a very cumbersome and time consuming ordeal with conventional lead plate weights. Tungsten alloy vehicle ballast as block shape offers up to 50% more weight in a given volume, with the added advantages of direct attachment via threaded holes or thru-bolting and the freedom from deformation. The high density of tungsten heavy alloys (WHAs) permit weights to be placed in the lower half of NASCAR weight adjustment tubes, effectively lowering the overall center of gravity for improved handling. Chinatungsten's tungsten alloy vehicle ballast is a specialized line of racing weights for these applications.

Reasons for Choosing Tungsten Alloy Vehicle Ballast

Tungsten alloy vehicle ballast, also called tungsten alloy vehicle weight, is now becoming the most popular material for balancing race cars:

Highest density
Adding tungsten alloy vehicle weight nto the framework of a racing car helps you to balance the car during the race. Better balance contributes to the better control over the car's movement and helps to optimize the overall performance.

High tensile strength and good creep resistance
Tungsten alloy vehicle weight has high tensile strength and good creep resistance with a high mass/size ratio. Tungsten alloy vehicle weight is the ideal material to work within a restricted space. The high density of tungsten alloy vehicle weight gives enhanced sensitivity by increasing the control of load distribution.

Easily Machined
Tungsten alloy vehicle weight is easily machined and allows designers greater flexibility in deciding on the final shape of components. It also offers several other advantages over conventional balance materials e.g. lead or steel. 

Chinatungsten Online's tungsten alloy can be used in:

Automotive

High environmental compatibility, lower fuel consumption, and improved electronics for more comfort and safety in modern vehicles set high demands for applied materials. Tungsten and molybdenum products from Chinatungsten made from high performance materials advance to new levels of achievement and guarantee maximum efficiency.

Increasing service temperatures and compact, space-saving designs are the demands of the engine generations of the future. High performance tungsten and molybdenum products are best suited for applications in engines because of their mechanical, chemical and physical properties. Components made of tungsten heavy alloy with densities up to 18,5 g/cm3 are well-suited for highly effective crankshaft and racing weights, flywheel balance weights in standard production cars, in racing, shipping or the industrial engine sector.

Motor Sports

The minimum weight requirements of motor sport formulae are often met with ease as more exotic materials give designers the ability to create lighter and stronger components in the search for greater performance.

Adding Chinatungsten Online's tungsten alloy vehicle weight helps to provide competitive advantage by giving the ability to add ballast within confined spaces in exactly the correct place to both trim the weight distribution and lower the centre of gravity of a competition car and still meet the minimum weight requirements.

A lower centre of gravity can also be achieved by adding tungsten skid plates, which also protects the lower parts of the chassis, especially important in F1 racing car, where a ride-height monitoring plank is used.

Engines

Due to its very high density, Chinatungsten Online's tungsten alloy vehicle ballast is an ideal material for suppressing vibration in static or moving components. Applications for Chinatungsten Online's tungsten heavy alloy include:

Wheel weights
Lead weights often fall off automobile wheels, leading to lead contamination of the environment. 
There is a thriving market in lead-free wheel weights. European and Japanese automobile manufacturers have already switched to lead-free wheel weights and U.S. automobile manufacturers are currently in the process of making the switch. Asian auto manufacturers now primarily use tungsten alloy flywheel weights. Tungsten alloy flywheel weights are also sed widely in Europe, and US auto manufacturers are using tungsten alloy weights for automobiles destined for export to Europe.

Tungsten heavy alloy is becoming more and more popular for counterweight, balance weights for flywheels, ballast for F1 formula car, racing weights, dynamic balancing, etc. Tungsten alloy is the best material for tungsten alloy for the balancing weight, and has been widely known and applied.