Anyone ever thrown a rod?
 

A few years back in the good old days of the internet, probably way before most of you kiddies ever knew what an S12 was there was some pics on Datmans site of some CA18ET's that have thrown rods. It was said at the time this was a major weakness of the engine.

I can't really comment much on standard engines as other than my first S12 which I had for 6 months I've only ever ran DET rods in the ET.

But the thing is, I haven't heard of anyone chucking a rod for many years :confused:

I can only think that the engines that threw them were mk1's without the 6.5k limiter, or maybe the lighter Scimitars made it easier to over rev them.

Anyone been unlucky then?

I've thrown a rod twice but never in a et once in an old "Y" reg 1.6 Honda Accord and once on a CA18DE never heard of a ET throwing one.

i asked this question too my dad, and when he was in the army in the 80's a mate of his had an s12, a mk1, and he thinks he thru a rod, tho the car was ragged 24/7,

i dont know of anyone throwing them in the last 6 years either, ive conflicted this rumour before on sxoc quite a few times. Also i spoke to datman about this years ago. He agreed after discussion that it wasnt entirely the engines fault but i wont say much more on it.


kenn finns still on standard rods and so was adz, and adz liked to drive his hard and high in the rpm, he also had the piper cam. There good examples for the engines strengths i recon

They are a bit thinner that the DET rods, I'll show a pic I took, but yeah it seems odd that they don't throw them anymore :confused:

It must be down to revs I imagine as the stress will increase exponentially.

The only one I know that has thrown a rod was down to a spun big end and the owner (Neil) didn't give a crap about the car, but this would have thrown any sized rod in the end.

Will took me out in the 120y and he likes his revs more than i would.

Steel rod on left, DET rod in middle and ET rod on right.

If the DET rods can deal with 370bhp then the ET rods probably close to 270-300 at a guess

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...2032008126.jpg

if so then the pistons are actually weaker then as i doubt they would survive running that much power.



what steel rods are they? they look pretty tough

Some nutter on sxoc is running nearly 400bhp on a std bottom end. He does intend to blow it up though.

Thats made by Pauter that steelie.

i can remember seeing the pic of that block that threw a rod years ago, it will defo be revs that feck rods up, i've never thrown a rod on a std engine, although i felt like throwing an old fj rod at the dog this afternoon, the cnut wun't stop barking.:D