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1982AMCConcord
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Thanks guys!
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67 Marlin
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About $750 shipped to your door, including rings.
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SC397
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They will make whatever you want and no the prices are not even close to Wiseco.
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1982AMCConcord
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Cool. Good to know. Do you know if they have more sizes available and are the prices close to the Wiseso? Something tells me they are probably a bit more.
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SC397
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I am on a first name basis with these guys. I use them for the more custom jobs. Good guys to work with but sometimes a little slow.
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1982AMCConcord
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I have seen a few guys use these too...
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BassBoat
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I recently tore down a 360 that had been run hard for a long time. Bracket raced for maybe 25 years. I knew the 5 other owners of the car over the years. The car got a performance valve job about about half way through its life, and a replacement crank and fresh valve springs just before I bought it. I ran it to 6000-6300 for the three years I had it. I got the engine from the guy I sold the car to when he had issues and put his 401 in. I was always skeptical about those skinny bolts and cast rods in a 360. But this car had 1973 amc cast pistons and rods and had the snot run out of it. So I don't have concerns with stock rods and bolts any more. Honestly, there was no obvious visible issue with the pistons or rods. I suspect the rods are at the end of their life and will not re-use them. But pistons? only takes one bad tank of gas or one time with the timing off and you can bust the ring lands. So I can see putting forged pistons on stock rods....
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69 ambassador 390
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You are right, If you have the correct tools. Most people will just use a harbor Freight stone to do it. I will stone and scrape a block myself if it's in good shape. Most people will make it too smooth.
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Steve Brown
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1982AMCConcord
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I completely agree... I was going to say something similar but you already beat me to it. I have spent a lot of time talking with the guys on here and Facebook about my future 360 engine build. The 360 rods are the same at the 290, 304 and 343. And none of those engines are known for breaking the stock rods. While there are some guys that have abused their 360 to the point of killing it... I don't remember a single one of them blaming broken rods. I have several local friends who have said the same thing.. that they have routinely abused a 360 to within an inch of it's life and the rods haven't been what caused it to fail... its always the stock cast pistons or spun bearings. Honestly.. from my readings.. these engines are actually very hard to totally kill. I personally would not hesitate to use the stock rod with the Wiseco's for a standard street or hot street/strip build. If someone is running the drag strip every weekend... then yes.... swap rods... K1, Molnar... even the Scat rods are pretty nice for the money.. but beware.. there are two versions of the Scat rods. One uses 8740 chromoly steel and the other uses ARP2000 alloy... and that means a $125 price difference. |
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LMM1996
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Its all a matter of opinion, but you don't really need aftermarket rods unless you are using a power adder or plan on turning some RPMs. I can't speak for everybody, but in my case I didn't need to spend 600.00 on aftermarket rods. The motor will most likely never be over 6000 rpm, and will never have a power adder on it. I doubt my engine will make 400hp so I didn't see any reason to upgrade those parts. The stock crank and rods should be good up to around 500hp so I just had ARP bolts put in and had the original rods resized and the rotating assembly balanced. Again I can't speak for everybody, but in my case, I had to buy new pistons so an extra 50-100.00 for the Wisecos was a no brainer. Especially since they made it much easier to get the compression bumped up to a more ideal number. Getting the compression above 9.0:1 is one of the best things you can do to these, or any low comp motor for that matter.
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