i got my car in 99' because of a thrown rod, my mate had it at the time, big hole in the block, i bought the car, and a second hand engine. mine is also without the rev limiter.

ahh also the engine that threw the rod, was put together by none other than mr pete rosenberg.

so could have been a weakness there. :D

PMSL proper funny, i laughed whilst drinking coffee, now all over screen..

never heard of or seen thrown rod in the scimitars but they came from the factory with bluebird ecus with the limiters. before i bought my current car, the guy had SE build the engine with std rods but JE pistons and he revved to 7,5k on track all the time, upping the aftremarket limiter to 8,5k on certain tracks:eek: it ran like that for 4 years but the engine gave up on me 6 months into my first season with the car. i revved it to 7.5k which in hindsight was too much for the valve train not the rods.
ive seen a few scim engines go bang through valve retainers breaking the end off the valve and dropping the valve, grenading the engine (thats what killed my original and teh Graham Walker scim race car engine too (with titanium retainers. i use DET Pauters and modfied DET wisecos pistons in current engine and set limiter to 7,2k to save valve train

where did you get the titanium retains from for the et craig ?

i didnt have titanium retainers but the walkers engine had originally. i believe Oselli Engineering did most of the engine work on that car and made them as one-offs. cant iamgine how much they would have cost:eek:

Last ET throwing a rod I can remember is Eddie Ratdats in a Nissan Parie, actually that threw two rods, but it was ragged hard, can't rember if it was a mk1 or 2 lump though.

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This is my second engine running 205 at the wheels and now 212 at the wheels on a bar of boost revving it to in between 6500rpm and just under 7000rpm and touch wood its been fine,The guy who mapped used to hit the limiter coming down the box!!! it did strip the thread on the allen headed bolt at the back end of the cam. Any engine i have built up on the silvys ,have never seen any signs of weak rods etc but i have put holes in a couple of pistons in the old days, the cause was a nipped fuel pipe under the fuel filter or too much boost lol, Guy called David used to be on here had 200 ish at the wheels and 100 shot of nitrous:D :D fooking nutter and it never had a problem as far as i remember he was on standard bottom end i think.
Would be interested to see how much power the rods would take ???:D :D

wack a direct port wet nitrous kit on it and see kenn