Trouble Deciding which rods

[Bizarre]

Well after a miss-shift, not much was left undamaged on my 7-bolt 4g63. I went ahead and pick up a 6-bolt 4g63 for a complete build up.

Current mods:
-Forced Performance Green Turbo
-Ported exhaust manifold
-3" dp and exhaust
-port and polished head
-Dual valve springs, retainers, and valves.
-Magnus Intake Manifold (new style)
-many other little supporting mods

I'm going to be getting the rotating assembly balanced, and blocked bored .30 over.

I'm having trouble deciding what rods I should go with.

The two popular choices for rods I see on here are Eagles and Crower. What I don't see are people running Pauter rods. Coming from the Honda community i've read alot of good things about Pauter rods. I've also seen many posts about bent Crowers rods, and warnings to stay away from them.

There is about a 100$ of difference between the rods starting with Eagles being the cheapest. But I would rather spend a little more money on a better rod (whatever that might be) and not break down the road due to a rod failure and have to spend five times as much.

I just wanted to hear some opinions.

Also, I think I should note my power goals. I'll be aiming for 500+ whp and will be upgrading to a bigger turbo next season.

Thanks for looking.

 

[Bizarre]

Also, I forgot to mention. Pauter is a heavier rod than most of the competition. What would be the disavantages of running a heavier rod on a street car?

 

[dsm-onster]

Well after a miss-shift, not much was left undamaged on my 7-bolt 4g63. I went ahead and pick up a 6-bolt 4g63 for a complete build up.

Current mods:
-Forced Performance Green Turbo
-Ported exhaust manifold
-3" dp and exhaust
-port and polished head
-Dual valve springs, retainers, and valves.
-Magnus Intake Manifold (new style)
-many other little supporting mods

I'm going to be getting the rotating assembly balanced, and blocked bored .30 over.

I'm having trouble deciding what rods I should go with.

The two popular choices for rods I see on here are Eagles and Crower. What I don't see are people running Pauter rods. Coming from the Honda community i've read alot of good things about Pauter rods. I've also seen many posts about bent Crowers rods, and warnings to stay away from them.

There is about a 100$ of difference between the rods starting with Eagles being the cheapest. But I would rather spend a little more money on a better rod (whatever that might be) and not break down the road due to a rod failure and have to spend five times as much.

I just wanted to hear some opinions.

Also, I think I should note my power goals. I'll be aiming for 500+ whp and will be upgrading to a bigger turbo next season.

Thanks for looking.

the 1Ga rods can handle anything that 50 trim can throw at it. Why don't you wait and get a forged rod and piston combo next season when you get your new turbo?

 

[Bizarre]

the 1Ga rods can handle anything that 50 trim can throw at it. Why don't you wait and get a forged rod and piston combo next season when you get your new turbo?

Because I blew my engine, and I'm not going to yank out the engine again next year when I upgrade to the bigger turbo. I might even add the turbo this year depending on how the funds go.

 

[Old Mitsu Tech]

If you want to know about rods, talk to JDNSBR. He can tell you everything you need to know.

 

[fourreGsixty3]

Oliver rods are pretty nice IMO, Groden aluminum rods as well, with the alum. rods the expantion rate on them causes the rod bolts to have to be replaced more often then steel rods, and these rods you can use for street, and regardless of what some say these rods DONT strech, the bolts do, that wears at the rod bolts like I said before. But like Old mitsu tech said ask jdnsbr he will tell you everything and anything you need to know about which rods, also you could look into using the 1G rods and 2G pistons best of both gens.

EDIT*** Also the Grodens are 675$/set @ www.ffwdconnection.com, if you decide to go with them...also ffwd uses these rods in their engines capable of 600+HP, they will take anything you throw at them .