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Old 11-07-2019, 05:41 PM   #1
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Default SBC Pink Rods

How good are the GM SBC Pink Rods?
Seems everyone used them through the 90's successfully.

Have a set in the 350/255 Stocker Engine.
Are they good above 7000 rpm?
Getting different feedback.

Is there a preferred Piston Rod Combination?
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Old 11-07-2019, 06:22 PM   #2
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Default Re: SBC Pink Rods

That was about the best you could do 20-30 years ago.....but I'd never use them today with aftermarket rods legal and available at reasonable prices.

By the time you fully prepped a stock rod for race use you would spend a fair amount of $$ and would be far better off buying aftermarkets...

Manley rods would be preferred....

Eagles also have worked in a number of engines I built or raced myself and never had one fail...

Stock GM rods will fail way easier than aftermarket...
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Old 11-07-2019, 06:40 PM   #3
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and try to put togeather a set of eight that clean up size/length/weight/centered pin bore wise...quite a difficult job.
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Old 11-07-2019, 07:28 PM   #4
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As with any used rods, unless you have owned them since new, its unknown how many cycles they may have been previously subjected to. Not worth risking "catastrophic failure" when so many decent alternatives exist. Sell them to a Corvette or Camaro purist and move on IMHO.
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Default Re: SBC Pink Rods

Well, you've got them already so that's a plus, provided you don't go upside down getting them in shape.

If your goal is for something modest, that's one thing.

If you're going have the intake/heads/cam combo that gets you north of 7,000 regularly, that's another thing.

The Manley Sportsmaster rods are a great value:
http://www.manleyperformance.com/dl/cat/rods.pdf
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Properly rebuilt with some good bolts and resized they will hold up just fine. I ran stock rods in my super stock engines for years with no failures. When I had a stick in the car I left the line above 9000 rpm and crossed over 8000. Now it’s not worth spending the money on an old rod Whalen a new set is not much more. The Manley sportsmaster is a good rod for the cost.
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Old 11-07-2019, 10:03 PM   #7
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The older version was not as good as the later ones after 1979 more material around the rod bolts and they changed the beam as well. They were only a 1038 steel same as the steel cranks were made out of.
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Old 11-08-2019, 02:17 AM   #8
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GM Steel cranks were 1053 Steel
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Old 11-08-2019, 11:03 AM   #9
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Thanks
The Pink Rods are in the engine.
Originally prepped by Budd Rowe.
Just had Rockville Ring and Bearing go through the block.
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Old 11-08-2019, 11:03 AM   #10
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and try to put togeather a set of eight that clean up size/length/weight/centered pin bore wise...quite a difficult job.
Yes.....this will be your problem
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