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Plus then on my middle boost setting it probably has well over 300 pulls on the street. So far at the 600rwhp setup on several different local motors with stock rod bolts spinning to 6400 or less we've seen no problems with rod bearings when tearing them down. I try to stay off the 6600rpm limiter, but definitely get it on the street when it spins. I do know though it is a stock shortblock so it'll eventually go, but I think the stock rod bolts hold a lot better than a lot of people give credit. I do have the L33 so it has the better rods. 
I'll post the slip over there.
Also I'm on the STOCK 5.3 HEADS still! The motor just has cam/springs/pushrods/ls9 gakets/arp head studs, still has the stock timing chain, stock oil pump, stock rods bolts. Plus running a stock ls1 intake, stock fuel rails, stock throttle body! I'd love to get an ls6 intake on it to see what it would gain. So far we haven't pushed any coolant either since going to the head studs and ls9 gaskets, including a few 20lb pulls on the street when trying to dial in the boost controller.
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I was running race gas trying to be safe.
Correct and Being a guy that has owned a sbc powered first gen rx7 and also being a guy who has made PLENTY of power with a stock bottom end i can appreciate it, But apples to apples.

Yeah I know the car is light, but nobody complained when Parish did it in the fairmont. Of course I know it'd run slower if my setup was in a full weight fbody, but I did the rx7 because it was light and cheap. I have less than 10k dollars in my ENTIRE CAR, including the price of the car. Not many can say they run 8's for 10k and it's not like it's a crank it up for one pass, I've been beating the crap out of this car on the street.

This entire combo(motor/turbo/tranny/converter/etc) is all going in another car this winter to make me a fully loaded daily driver.




