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Old 04-20-2010, 02:21 PM
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Im building a lq9 and putting a 70mm on it. And was wondering how much power stock rods will hold. This is in a ws-6 trans am and it will be mostly street some strip looking.g to push 650. To 700 rwhp with Meth.
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well upon searching a little.deeper I have found people making 825 on 95k Mile all stock lq9s . So why go with callies rods unless your making 1000 hp
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With that size turbo, I probably wouldn't worry about it. Your likely to run out of air well before those internals give.
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It have heard guys are putting 800 on a stock rotating assembly, but I would recommend changing out the bottom end. I am not sure the exact rating on stock rods.
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Agreed, its been done but that doesn't make it a good idea! For inexpensive "insurance" I'd go with a set of Callies Compstar rods and some Wiseco pistons. I can get you into rods and pistons, including a steel top/napeir 2nd ring set, for about $1300. The rods are rated to 900hp with the ARP2000 bolts they come assembled with (conservative IMO, we've pushed them quite a bit farther than that!), and the 2618 forging pistons with that ring set will hold the power you're looking to push and then some!

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Cablebandit was at 750 rwhp for about 2 1/2 years with stock rods.
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If your tune is dead on it will live, but one false move and it's game over for the rotating assembly.
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i heard most rods give to rpm, not so much the cylinder pressure from high hp.
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well i have come to the conclusion that i think the stock rods will hold the power i want to make with ease . i may want to make more power down the road so i am putting in forged rods also . so matt i iwll be giving you a call


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