I tell you what I’ve decided even in my stock builds. By the time you have a competent performance machine shop, press the old pistons off, install ARP rod bolts, resize the rods, go to the extra work and the extra expense of matching/balancing the rods, checking the lengths and then pressing them back on the new pistons, you can buy a nice set of new rods. Even Molnar’s are in my builds budgets. Man, it's crazy shops are charging you $700 to rebuild a set of stock rods. It's nothing like that around here.
CHIP '70 hemicuda, 575" Hemi, 727, Dana 60 '69 road runner, 440-6, 18 spline 4 speed, Dana 60 '71 Demon, 340, low gear 904, 8.75 '73 Chrysler New Yorker, 440, 727, 8.75 '90 Chevy 454SS Silverado, 476" BBC, TH400, 14 bolt '06 GMC 2500HD LBZ Duramax
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