I'm dipping into my body-and-paint money to strengthen the lower-end on my 440...which I SHOULD have done back in 2005...when I had it re-built! I went with reconditioned,and bushed, LY factory rods,mated to Diamond forged pistons,and reconditioned factory forged crank. After getting the Eddy heads cnc-ported and milled .060,I'm estimating about 600-620 hp at the crank. I shift between 62-6500 rpm,and trap approx. 67-6800 in the 1/4. Please give me your suggestions. H-Beam or I-Beam? I'd like to keep the price to $500.00 or less. THANKS in advance! Randy B.

Compstar would be my suggestion.
Keith

K1 Billet's are close to that price. Get em with ARP2000 rod bolts. Tim

we sell and use a lot of both the K-1 and Compstar rods. the Compstars cost just a few dollars more. both will get the job done. the Compstar is IMO a better overall rod.

Randy,

Check Pms.

Not a ton of choices for LY replacement rods anymore. You'll have to look around a bit to find them. Did you bush your LY rods down to the 0.990 pin size? If so, you'll have a few more options.

K1's here

I think your opening a $500.00 can of worms. If you mess with the rods , you need to do do a rebalance. If you upgrade the rod bolts to some arp 2000 but, it wouldnt be worth it due to resizing the rod. I think the best bang for buck would be a stud girdle for your lower end. If you can, I would do both.

K1 gets my vote.

Get them from a supporting vendor like Performance Only since they done a lot of work with K1 to insure a quality product.

Allan G.

Thanks,guys! Andy..yes,they are bushed..with .990 pins.

it's a shame manley discontinued the sportsmaster rods. that was a quality forged in usa i beam rod.

I have field tested eagle rods and can say they are tough.... Even over heated a few, cleaned them up honed them and put them back in use... Engine was making 700+ HP turning 7200 rpms I should note. They didnt even have the better bolts, just the 8740..
I put that engine through hell, in a street car for a good while, into several diff chassis in race only from 2004 to 2009 hundreds pass's in a single season.

In the budget rods your looking at, let me say you can save about 70-80 grams in the I-beam rod over the same spec H-beam...
I have run the cheap RPM rods in a few engines, and they worked great...
I found a guy on ebay selling rods for like $250 which are the same rods everyone else sells for hundreds more....
I would run these in a heart beat in a application like yours Randy... Just have them checked of coarse, never had a single problem yet, other than the small pin needs honed...
Thats common procedure with these....
Shoot me a I will jump on the old computer and dig up that ebay link for ya...

Thanks Bob! Please PM the link..I'll check them out for sure! Randy

Randy I had an opportunity to compare 5 different rods side by side before I chose the K-1 rods When I was checking them before assembly all eight were perfect except one pin bushing was slightly tight.Just a few seconds with some crocus cloth and perfect like the rest.
Give Nick a call I think he has a few sets on the shelf but they may be for 990 pins what size are your pins?
Gus

Not this..

Ouch!! Did ya figure out what to do yet,Eric??

Listen to BGR in the first place and buy better parts ....building a new mill shortly..

Good luck,Eric!!