iv got the MTI X1 cam and 918s and titianum retainers siting in my closet, and was just told i dont need hardend pushrods is this true?

i just dont want to hurt my new toy

 

you old timers cant answer a newbies question???? seems like a dumb question I know, but the only dumb question is one not asked

 

put them in, missed shift will readily pretzel stockers

 

and i was told a missed shift with hardend might break other things like lifters and such

 

If for some reason, you were to miss a shift, bad enough to make a valve hit the piston, than that would break, instead of the pushrod, but the chances of that are kinda unlikley. I wouldnt worry about breaking a lifter either. I would, and always have, used hardend pushrods

 

well said SSean

 

yes sir use the hardened push rods.and I thought that w/ the stiffer springs and bigger lift that the load increases on the push rod alot,that the stock rod wouldnt handle it.hell the stock rods bearly what thier doing now.my friend bends one every other week,then uses my old ones to fix it.

 

speaking for anyone and everyone who has not just bent but snapped pushrods on a stock motor.......get hardened

 

Go with the hardened rods, it would be very worth your while and it might save your engine one day!

 

Hardened ones for sure. One of my friends went from 3rd to 2nd in a bolt on car, and bent 9 of the 16 pushrods, one was like a freakin S !! Imagine if he had a cam with more power and lift... doh!

 

yup i broke one in half #8 intake, and bent 4 missing a shift.

Have my car back together now and have missed two shifts racing, and i just pulled my heads off yesterday and everything looks perfectly fine.

Nate

 

Yup, hardened.

 

hmmm....$50(pushrods)....$3000(NEW MOTOR)..YOU DECIDE

 

$3000 new motor? more like double that

 

ok used motor!...no tranny

 

First of all if you reuse stock rockers (non adjustable), then your stock p-rods are .03 too short with aftermarket smaller base circle, so your valvetrain noise will increase, because you geometry is out of whack (stock prod length is 7.38)
2nd of all they will flex and rob you power for sure.
So why not do it right?