six pack rods

is the rods out of a 70 440 sixpack motor the same as the rods out of a standard 440 thanks.

They're a bit heavier/beefier than std rods & I always thought significantly but a guy just recently posted that they ain't too bad, just slightly heavier. HF has a gram scale on sale for less than ten bucks if you're figuring your bobweights and you can see what the difference is & you can trim the top/bottom pads reasonably, just sayin

I prefer the standard "LY" rod, did 2 performance builds with them. 6-pack rods are heavier and harder on the fasteners. I don't like the heavy TRW pistons, either. Lighter recip weight is the direction to take.

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I prefer the standard "LY" rod, did 2 performance builds with them. 6-pack rods are heavier and harder on the fasteners. I don't like the heavy TRW pistons, either. Lighter recip weight is the direction to take.

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I've built a bunch of stock stroke bracket motors with the heavy firged TRW race pistons and both LY and 6 pak rods, the six pak rod motors run out of steam about 500 RPM before the same motor combination with a set of LY rods do Sell the sixpak rods and buy a set of the better, lighter, stronger H beam forged steel race rods