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    Posted: Sep/16/2018 at 10:54pm

I noticed that the Scat connecting rods are 5.885 long and .010" longer than stock.  Has anyone used these and had clearance issues?  I have a set of Wiseco flat tops that I was planning to use, but didn't know if the longer rods would require special shorter pistons.  

Anyone have any thoughts on this or used the Scat rods?

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360 pistons are nominally 0.012" down the bore, so they should work so long as you don't deck by much.
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Thanks for the reply.

I figured out the Wiseco pistons I have (p/n: PTS539A3) are spec'd with a compression height of 1.59 and (I think) stock is 1.60.  

So, the Scat rods should theoretically get me back to nominal deck clearance, right? 

If so, I wonder what that does to my compression ratio?  Wiseco states the pistons will make 11.22:1 CR but that is probably based on stock rod length.  I'd still like to be able to run it on 92/93 octane.

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