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Originally Posted by Formulabruce
why rods? Stock rods are good for 6,000 and 450 hp..., ( the 1970 455 370 HP engine had over 10:1 CR as I recall.. STOCK Rods) put new rods and then old heavy pistons back on?
on a stock, to mild build stock rods are fine, and the >> cheap forged rods <<<< ( SCAT,CAT) always need more balancing and resizing.... Buy some lightweight pistons and spend money on balancing IM (HO) !
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I have TRW forged now and they should be good, about 5K miles on them, well, see. This short block was balanced before and runs very nice with D port heads now.... rods though? Kinda a Just Cause deal, same as 4 bolt caps I fitted, studs would have been smarter and cheaper. Yes stock rods with good bolts are fine, what I have now... the HO heads I am putting on are off a 72 TA a guy has here locally, now he runs an aluminum set up non stock. The original HO engine he broke a rod, cracked the block, while flogging it so there is one TA that will never be number match again. And it was 450 HP ish build, so stock rod failure happens with full tilt use occasionally.