Doubtful. I was lucky enough for one of my nuts to fall off before the stud broke. I went to tighten the nut back onto the stud, and the stud broke clean off.

Upon further investigation, I noticed that the inner area (just below the surface) of the stud basically melted and turned to a clay texture which leads me to believe its heat, not vibration, that causes them to break.

Aside from that, I don't think most turbo kits even allow a torque dampener as it would be in the way of the pipes and what not.


I just got the ARP studs, and they work great. Highly recommended

 

I might have to get the arp studs for the exhaust manifold aswell as the ones for my head then...

Alrightt

 

looks like this is a common problem?

 

Well all of the Honda blocks had this issue.

The B series engines always looses the outside studs even on a stock exhaust manifold.

These studs weren't meant for any other application, and increase an power and weight on the studs don't help it.

We have used ARP studs plenty of times, and they work really well.

Ya

 

How much are they?

 

i paid 90 dollars with shipping

 

The studs are normally pretty loose and you should be able to grab it with a pair of vise grips and screw it out like i did.

 

ok i had the same thing happen to me, snapped one off and had another just loosen up to the point where its going to fail as well. If I can just order an SRT4 ARP stud kit I will do that.

http://www.maperformance.com/arp-exhaust-m...-kit-srt-4.html

would that work? Thanks!!

 

i just bit the bullet and bought the ones from inlinepro

 

that is the place i bought them from. You get more than you need, but its always nice to have them lying around.