How important is the percentage of titanium content in the material?
It’s very important, because just a small change in percentage of titanium in the CGI can halve your tool life. In the case of an engine block you’ll typically have much lower titanium content. Titanium is good for abrasion wear or thermal conductivity. So in the case of an exhaust manifold you’d have a very high titanium content and miserable tool life. But you don’t have a lot of machining involved in an exhaust manifold. With an engine block you want to optimize everything more for milling and drilling because that’s the bulk of the content. With a cylinder head you could probably see some titanium content there as well. But again, controlling that very precisely is important, so that the tooling guy and the process guy know what to expect.
