aluminum rods

[krazyhorse1]

well super thats the way ive been leaning here in the last day or so. has any one tried the new midwest blocks.
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[427belair]

Your going to be able to reuse your rods and crank on a 540 depending on rod length. There were some guys on yellowbullet talking about the streghth of a stock block and someone had some made some straps for the mains that helped over 1000hp.
http://yellowbullet.com/forum/showthrea ... tock+block

[Hitchcock]

well super thats the way ive been leaning here in the last day or so. has any one tried the new midwest blocks.
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The midwest racing blocks are cast in china! Beware, probably made by Pro Comp. For jsut a few hundred bucks more you can get a dart or merlin.

[krazyhorse1]

thanks for the heads up hitch but ive heard some bad things about world also. i have some of there cast iron heads for small blocks but never messed with there blocks i thought i heard some bad things about them on here. if i recall some thing about the oil filter area or something.
oh on the rod side of things has any one used the howards ultimate duty forged billet rods.

[silvanova]

Id definately get the dart block with billet steel splayed mains. And aluminum rods all the way. U will be very happy with it expecially on the spray.

[Hitchcock]

thanks for the heads up hitch but ive heard some bad things about world also. i have some of there cast iron heads for small blocks but never messed with there blocks i thought i heard some bad things about them on here. if i recall some thing about the oil filter area or something.
oh on the rod side of things has any one used the howards ultimate duty forged billet rods.

I have never used those rods, but I'm fairly sure they are cast and machined by Callies for Howards.

[Moparious Maximus]

oh on the rod side of things has any one used the howards ultimate duty forged billet rods.

Just from the phrase (forged billet) I would stay away from it. Forged rods take a raw casting and whack it a few times to make the shape of the rod, then machine it.

Billet rods are machined from extruded material.

The billet rod people I would trust are, MGP, GRP, and R&R, and we have used Manley's forged rods in a small chevy and they have been great to us.

[Mike Peters]

Intersting read on Bill Miller's take on forged vs. billet rods -

http://www.bmeltd.com/rods.htm

[krazyhorse1]

thanks everybody for all the info