Broke/bent rods

Bushwood_6.0 · Nov 19, 2014

thewrubelator said:
It should! 11.3 or bust lol ya I saw in your build thread your doing the 80, wonder if the truck will run with that big of a single.

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We will see soon. If it doesn't I'm turning it back and just cruising and putting a 68

Bushwood_6.0 · Nov 19, 2014

thewrubelator said:
And the truck weighs around 6050 with me and a half tank.

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Honestly you'll be probably high 10s on a good run. Your going to crush a 11.3 at that weight 11.0s all day probably.

swinky · May 4, 2015

Anybody break or bend a rod lately?

There was some very strong 6.0s at Rudys on stock bottom.

6 L chevy eater · May 5, 2015

900whp swink 900

Bushwood_6.0 · May 6, 2015

6 L chevy eater said:
900whp swink 900

900 and do not hit the rev limiter!!!!

swinky · May 6, 2015

Yikes I think I'm good for a bit.

andrewsteelerford05 · May 8, 2015

I'm pretty sure I will bend or break one this summer.

powerstrokedkid87 · Jun 16, 2015

got the red truck apart, 2 broken rods, last dyno number was 639 I believe, but that was almost 2 years ago. and miles of work between then and October when it blew apart.

MrOneEyedBoh · Jun 16, 2015

What are these stock rods good for? I thought around 800ish

swinky · Jun 16, 2015

MrOneEyedBoh said:
What are these stock rods good for? I thought around 800ish

I'm close to 800 on spray. So far so good.

Six_Sloww · Jun 16, 2015

Hp doesn't break rods, look at the big single turbo 6.4's some make 1k. It's torque and where you make it, Good tuning is important to making big power live.

Edit: just realized I'm repeating myself. Didn't realize I've already commented here, carry on.

MrOneEyedBoh · Jun 16, 2015

Its always good to reiterate

KCTurbos · Jun 16, 2015

Another thing to realize... is how you are making that HP and what you are doing with it will change how long the rods will last. A lot of guys that I know bent a rod know exactly when it happened. Like... when they added another degree of timing, or bounced really hard off the line while spraying nitrous at the track, ran a new tune and had something "weird" happened, wastegate did not open, etc. IMO there is no "guaranteed" HP number at which these rod can hold to.

TyCorr · Jun 16, 2015

Swinky...you spraying because you neeed (relative term) more turbo? Or do you run the 366 to keep it super streetable?

Im stiiiiiill looking at trucks. I can get a low mileage 6l for about 40 grand less than a new 6.7. Thats a lot of cheese just to have a different engine. Would you use a powermax and 175/75 for a daily? Or go to a non vgt?

slc dzl · Jun 16, 2015

TyCorr said:
Swinky...you spraying because you neeed (relative term) more turbo? Or do you run the 366 to keep it super streetable?

Im stiiiiiill looking at trucks. I can get a low mileage 6l for about 40 grand less than a new 6.7. Thats a lot of cheese just to have a different engine. Would you use a powermax and 175/75 for a daily? Or go to a non vgt?

If it were me I'd skip the box powermax and go with the 364.5 to run with those 175s for your daily.

swinky · Jun 16, 2015

TyCorr said:
Swinky...you spraying because you neeed (relative term) more turbo? Or do you run the 366 to keep it super streetable?

Im stiiiiiill looking at trucks. I can get a low mileage 6l for about 40 grand less than a new 6.7. Thats a lot of cheese just to have a different engine. Would you use a powermax and 175/75 for a daily? Or go to a non vgt?

Just because it's what I have man.

The 366 and 190/75 combo is absolutely awesome. I just wanted a little more oomph to run 7.70. This thing runs harder than most trucks with 225s.

swinky · Jun 16, 2015

TyCorr said:
Swinky...you spraying because you neeed (relative term) more turbo? Or do you run the 366 to keep it super streetable?

Im stiiiiiill looking at trucks. I can get a low mileage 6l for about 40 grand less than a new 6.7. Thats a lot of cheese just to have a different engine. Would you use a powermax and 175/75 for a daily? Or go to a non vgt?

362 if it was me. Do an intercooler too.

TyCorr · Jun 16, 2015

But the 190/75 s366 is useable for everything? Or is towing no good?

swinky · Jun 16, 2015

TyCorr said:
But the 190/75 s366 is useable for everything? Or is towing no good?

I'll tow anything. Not sure what will melt though.

TyCorr · Jun 17, 2015

Oh, ok. That answers my question.

I don't want that kind of setup. Maybe ill do some more research on setups. Id be ok with smaller injectors and a pmax i think.