Engine rods

Hava a customer wants to have us build motor for him.He was wondering aboutEagle rods and Doing the upgrade to the l-19 bolts.I have never used this type of stuff in my builds.Need info on if this stuff is any good.He wants a 466 ci with blue thunder heads about 12 to 1. Will they work ok.Please give imput. Thanks steve

Whats it going to be used for? All natural or some sort of power adder? Why 12:1? Seems like an odd desired compression ratio.

He wants a bracket motor.Going to run a alchol carb and single plane intake.Won'spend the money for Crower rods or Corillo rods and thats all I use.Just testing the waters to see what low buck stuff will work good enough for about 700 hp and 6800 rpm and hold togather. Any imput I will be grateful. thanks steve

I think you would have more than enough bolt with the 2000 series. Plus L19's are know to corrode. I guess that's the proper term. I'm running scat hbeams with the standard bolts at about your desired HP and rpm.

dont run L19's in an alky deal, hell I got 2000's and Scat h beams in my turd.............more than enough IMO.

FORDMUD wrote:I think you would have more than enough bolt with the 2000 series. Plus L19's are know to corrode. I guess that's the proper term. I'm running scat hbeams with the standard bolts at about your desired HP and rpm.

The correct condition for those bolts is that they are prone to "hydrogen imbrittlment" if they are not ALWAYS covered with some type of oil to keep them from the atmosphere.
I don't think EAGLE offers the 2000 bolt but, the L19's instead; (unless they have changed).

Preferably, I use the SCAT's with the 2000 bolts.

So are these better than the truck rods and the football head bolts?I do remember using them years ago? Thanks for your imput steve

Eagle offers the 2000 bolt in there rods now, got them in my motor

What about the ? 8720 or #8320 bolts that are the non upgrade bolts by arp?

STHAZLET wrote:He wants a bracket motor.Going to run a alchol carb and single plane intake.Won'spend the money for Crower rods or Corillo rods and thats all I use.Just testing the waters to see what low buck stuff will work good enough for about 700 hp and 6800 rpm and hold togather. Any imput I will be grateful. thanks steve

imo,Crower/Carillo rods are over kill in this build unless its in a high reving pulling truck engine. The Eagle rods and a Scat forged crank would serve him well.

STHAZLET wrote:So are these better than the truck rods and the football head bolts?I do remember using them years ago? Thanks for your imput steve

The eagle rods work fine and are a definete upgrade over the stock rods, use 2000 bolts instead of the L19 stuff.

Thanks guys this is the kind of info I needed.The stuff I build for myself is a little more high tec than this.I didn't know on this type of build whhat would or wouldn't work well so I have gotten some good imput.Thanks.He wants me to use a roller cam he has,he lost the cam card.I am going to look it has a grind # and who made it.I will post later to see if any of you have heard of it. Again thanks a lot,you have me some good info steve

bbf-falcon wrote:

STHAZLET wrote:He wants a bracket motor.Going to run a alchol carb and single plane intake.Won'spend the money for Crower rods or Corillo rods and thats all I use.Just testing the waters to see what low buck stuff will work good enough for about 700 hp and 6800 rpm and hold togather. Any imput I will be grateful. thanks steve

imo,Crower/Carillo rods are over kill in this build unless its in a high reving pulling truck engine. The Eagle rods and a Scat forged crank would serve him well.

Scat forged crank for a 466 . that something new ?

On the builds you guys use,How big a Camshaft do you use? Do you use flat tappet or roller?And what lift.I used to run a flat tappet around .750 lift.108 center line.They worked pretty good.Any Ideas?

Need a lot more info..... Cam tech has come a long way in the last 20 years. I'd definetly look into a roller.