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Its hardly ever the parts that fail/wear out most times. Its how its all screwed together and the tuning.

You could put the best pistons and conrods in there and if its not built right or tuned right for that matter too, it will still suffer a premature failure/wear out.

Dont get so worried about the parts youve chosen. Just make sure your builder hones the big ends and small ends to suit desired bearing crush for big ends and pin to bore clearance for the small ends. Make sure they are balanced end to end as well.

So long as he does his job properly you wont have any issues.

Ignore most of the smack talk people say in forums about rods and pistons and the rest of that shit. Half the people have no idea anyway, its usually something they have heard from a mate, or what their mechanic has told them(who isnt their engine builder, though you will find the tuner will blame the engine builder and the builder will blame the tuner, unless they are one in the same). One person will have a bad experience, that expereince will have the cause incorrectly blamed on a certain part because of rumours, despite other people having success with that same part. Suddenly forums are filled with trash talk with no real evidence provided and then you will base your decision on this after reading said forum. And you will throw away hard earned money because you believed it.

Its just like tradies and their tools!

Keep and use the rods mate. Nothing wrong with them.

Well said.

Plus there is no reason that rods wont last forever if they operate within the design limits. The problem with off the shelf rods is that they are usually designed to be as strong as possible and rated by testing in a high HP engine. Its just to hard to optimise rod design for each engine without knowning all the variables (max rpm, torque, location of PP etc etc.

PPM here in vic sell a decent rod for the price, made over 500awkw on them so far.

seen a manley rod in a SR 2.2 stroker let go (460rwkw 8500rpm) so we dont use them, could have been a one off but if other rods do it easy ill stick with them..

PPM here in vic sell a decent rod for the price, made over 500awkw on them so far.

seen a manley rod in a SR 2.2 stroker let go (460rwkw 8500rpm) so we dont use them, could have been a one off but if other rods do it easy ill stick with them..

Now I'll swap my manley rods for your eagles!

if you really need to get piece of mind just get new rod bolts and relpace the little ends.. end of story. any word on replacing your tired old valve springs? they have the hardest job of the engine..

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