rod bolts?
rod bolts? so im doing my cam soon and im planing porting and polishing the heads and maybe some forged pistons but when i do the cam i plan on raising the redline to around 6700 or 6800 and want to know if stock crank/rods can take this kinda of abuse(plus 100 of n20)
maybe if i upgrade my rod bolts or should i just do the entire bottem end and be done with it(hymm 383 comes to mine
)
maybe if i upgrade my rod bolts or should i just do the entire bottem end and be done with it(hymm 383 comes to mine
) if your tossing or planning on tossing some pistons in, its essentially free labor to put rod bolts in, if I had the opportunity to toss some in, even if im not going over 6.5k, id still do it for cheap insurance.
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Some people get away with it, others don't. I'm not the only one that's had this happen and it's pretty risky knowing you have to tear apart you're bottom end again if it doesn't work.
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Well, the motor had no knock before the swap, and now there is a slight knock under load. I did some research and it turns out the new rod bolts can load the bearing differently than the old ones did resulting in a big damn headache. Thats the reason why ARP recommends against just swapping out bolts without checking clearances. I thought it sounded like b.s. too until I heard my car knocking on the dyno a couple weeks ago.
Some people get away with it, others don't. I'm not the only one that's had this happen and it's pretty risky knowing you have to tear apart you're bottom end again if it doesn't work.
Some people get away with it, others don't. I'm not the only one that's had this happen and it's pretty risky knowing you have to tear apart you're bottom end again if it doesn't work.
