heh yea enough fuel with the air does help =)

 

Good lord, Rob!! I had no idea any of our cars were running that much boost. Way to break new ground, bro. Keep it up!

 

BBI ran atleast one car at 42PSI and 15:1 AFR to test their head studs/gaskets/liners n pistons for their 3.8 kit Betim said we tried to blow it up with no sucess

 

Top guns letting us all learn, guys tks!!!!

 

damnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn

 

Experts, which rods do you recomend... To do just rods

 

off the shelf pauter x beam need no oil pump clearance

carillo are a bit stronger

arrow are better unsure if they on the shelf solution though

 

arrow rods. No need to notch the oil pump.


btw, what are the pro/cons of H-beam vs. X-beam?

 

Pauter.

 

Scott when will you go to mexico?

 

The h beam rods are actually stronger cause the x beam is a fancy I beam


either way if you manage to bend any of these rods youve got other problems or your running 1400+ horsepower

 

1400+ hp ......... now you have me worried.

 

it is possible local shop has some turbo the size of garbage can lids with enough anti lag matters im sure they could be spooled

but seriously im not sure anyone on this board with a sub 100k build could possibly ona properly tuned engine bend the rods(pauter/carrillo arrow choose your flavor) out of shear power.

 

Can rods be changed from the lower part of the engine not diassembling the whole engine?

 

the bulk of the labor is getting the pistons off average difference in labor is 33hrs to remove cylinder heads versus an additional 40hrs to remove the pistons due to the way the motor is designed the hardest aprt of assembly is installing the pistons on the rods.

so you can install the rods without removing the crank from the engine block BUT, if your already into the motor for 60-80hrs of labor why not replace the bearings and make sure everything is good on the bottom end rather then cheap out on a 20,000$ build.