Anyone ever thrown a rod?

[PukkaSilvia]

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

[30psi]

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

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.

[PukkaSilvia]

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

[30psi]

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

[PukkaSilvia]

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

[30psi]

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.

[s13eater]

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.