Well last week, I learned a small lesson not to skimp on small stuff during a build. Or I'll end up paying even more.
About two years ago, a stock chain tensioner was installed in this engine, since I completely forgot to have my Bates unit be used. So I just let it be..... And wasn't really worried about it.
After all the dyno/street runs, last week the stock unit failed and caused the timing to skip a tooth or two.
Btf believes that nothing internally was damaged. All rockers was still in place, which is a good sign.
He has to remove the whole compound manifold to get access to this issue, and replace it with my Bates tensioner.
Well I figured that, since josh (project scarab)basically just gave me his set of Carillo rods since he is going V8, and BTF is basically gonna hook me up by pulling the engine out to have access to the tensioner and also install the Carillo rods.....so why not take this opportunity to have a peace of mind?
By spending a couple of hundreds now to install the carillo rods, will prevent me from spending several thousands later on.
Once a rod breaks, it can damage lots of engine internals or can easily go make a hole in the block
I've seen photos of some members with a window on their blocks
K1 rods are very decent rods, but probably maxes out around 600hp. I will sell them to recover the couple of hundreds extra that I have to pay for pulling out my engine.
The carillo h beams will easily handle 1000hp. I'm not shooting for that number, but I rather have an over-kill bottom end with this compound build, for safety reasons.
