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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.
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23-03-2008, 18:03
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Will took me out in the 120y and he likes his revs more than i would.
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23-03-2008, 18:26
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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
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23-03-2008, 18:49
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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.
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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.
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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  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
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