[Dragncar]

Originally Posted by Jay S

You would think there could be a more reasonable American made option between $650 and $2400.

Jim Bulter told me once how many Eagle cranks he sold, was either a total number or a dollar value for the first year they were out. If I remember correctly he said that number well over 100,000, that was either grand total of cranks sold the first year they were released or a grand total of how many he sold. Either way it was a big number..I if that was the total number of cranks sold and all those received Carrillo connecting rods, that would be over $246 million dollars worth of Pontiac connecting rods. LOL

Jim also mentioned an additional step they did to check to see if the rubber rods were able to be heat treated. It was a selective procedure looking for a particular grain pattern, the guy in Texas apparently didn’t just blindly do heat treating with those rods.

There are Oliver rods, around 1650$ Not sure if the make a true Pontiac rod though. I bet at that price the billet blanks come form China.

[Jay S]

Originally Posted by Dragncar

There are Oliver rods, around 1650$ Not sure if the make a true Pontiac rod though. I bet at that price the billet blanks come form China.

That is a little better, but there should still be a cheaper option.. I have a set of Molnar rods waiting to go in an engine that were still $900 on sale. Not cheap for what I think of as cheap. I looked it up and Oliver and it was $1656 is the base price and $2556 for the Max power set for a 6.8” BBC length, definetly no Pontiac RJ options. Oliver says they are all USA made. None of the USA made steel rods are H beam either, so I guess we are expected to go slower to run USA made products. The H beam is usually recommended for NA race engines for reasons.

I have 1 Molnar crank and 2 cut down 455 Nodular stroker cranks in 400 Pontiacs, then I have three engines with USA Billet cranks. I have another engine that has BME Aluminum rods, they are quite a bit cheaper than those USA made steel rod options. I will never suggest anyone make any kind of effort to reuse those old 58 to 62 Pontiac rods unless the engine is stock. A picture is worth a thousand words.