99Silver6.0

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I just had a fairly valid point brought up to me by someone. I put ARP rod bolts in my new motor in lieu of Parish's luck on his LQ4. But, somebody had told me that putting in the higher tensile strength rod bolts will acutally mis-shape the rod caps. Is there any truth to that? I hope this question doesnt come off in a bad way. Just wanted some internal engine savvy guys to chime in here.

moregrip

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look here:

http://truck.ls1tech.com/forums/show...88#post3149188

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99Silver6.0

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What kind of crap is that? If a rod bolt made by ARP isnt correct, why do they make them for the LS1's?

moregrip

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huh? internal section on LS1Tech has mucho info on this.

plenty have used the ARP with no ill effects, was just giving you an option designed to be a direct swap

99Silver6.0

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Im not getting all pissy at you man. Didnt mean it that way. If they arent a direct swap, what has to be done to them? Did I miss something when I put mine in?

ranwalk

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Never heard of having to modify anything when using the ARP bolts. I'm running them in my engine.

moregrip

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lots of good info here:

https://ls1tech.com/forums/showthread.php?t=346532

moregrip

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posted a link for your edification

99Silver6.0

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I saw alot about resizing rod caps but nothing that really pertained to the bolts. It says you can do that on a SBC but not on an LS1. It also said that the resizing didnt have to be done when the ARP High Performance bolts were utilized. Guess Im gonna do a bit more searching.


My motors gonna blow up now. Sweet.

ranwalk

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Interesting info. Since Futral built my engine I trust if any modification was needed he would have done it. Looks like nobody is 100 percent certain though. I know it seems alot of guys are runing ARP bolts with no problems though. If I were to do it over again I would probably go with the Katech bolts, just because of what thier ad says.