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#11

03-25-2008, 08:02 PM

driftking8732

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RE: stock internals

what would be guessed cost to have rods put in, and what else would need to be done

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03-25-2008, 09:35 PM

01afour

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RE: stock internals

the shop thats doing my work said they dont like to go over 300hp w/o replacing the rods. anything over 450hp as a daily drive they said i should replace more.

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03-25-2008, 10:51 PM

BaconBait

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RE: stock internals

I wouldn't go over 350ft lbs without rods. Especially with a cookie cutter tune. Plenty of 1.8t's have had what's left of the rods punch through the sides of the block.