Anyone Ever Broke/bend 25 Con Rod?

[FineLine]

Funnily enough a recent issue of HPI listed the strengths and weaknesses of their top 10 engines.

The weakness of the rb 25 in their opinion was the rods. I dont know how they come to that conclusion because like most here I have never seen an actual rod problem.

[Adriano]

HPI, enough said

[R31Nismoid]

lol ye.

Its usually the rod bolts that would be questionable before the rod itself in both 25 & 26, but then if you keep to sane revs in a 25... 7500rpm, you shouldnt have too much of a drams on stock bolts as long as you dont chase big power, or hold high rpm for ages

[bloodzkull]

u can buy spool rods for the same price as gtr rods nowadays man.

spool rods are only about 600ish man.

if u do a cheap job, be prepared to come back to it.

brand new 26 rods from nissan (didn't want to try second hand) where pretty expensive. so i just went spool rods in my 26. but even at 330awkw and an 8500rpm rev limit they only damage to the rods was the bearing surface because the oil pump failed.