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figgie said:
speaking of Money.

Ditch that dash and step up to the ADL. No more redundancy and datalog EVERYTHING ;)
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I like my gauges and can have playback like "now" by a push of a button rather than the waiting of my laptop to open.

Duane
 
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That's why you use hibernation :D It's quick!

Do your gauges allow a frame by frame check , at your own pace?

As for pistons/rods - I've got Eagle Rods on the way. Fully machined forged rods > stock any day of the week.
 
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boostadikt said:
again your setting the limit to 550-600 range..... we have already said that stock rods have gone above that.



that is your own opinion, and while you are trying to force your opinion on everyone else, i am stating the facts...... sure eagle rods are better than recondishioned stock rods, but thats the choice of the owner.... there are a lot of people that aren't "cheap" in anyway and use stock rods.

in my case... i would definately not call myself cheap but my shot peened, recondishioned rods cost me 200$ instead of 500$ for eagles, and im running weisco pistons on them and im currently making high 500's, and for 3 hours strait last night i beat the living hell out of my car racing Evo's, sti's, a cobra and various other cars, the last thought while i was bouncing off my rev limiter was my rods, because i built my engine and i have faith in my tuning

so my point is, you build your car and i will build mine, but dont tell me that i built mine wrong and set your imaginary HP limit on my motor because IT HAS BEEN PROVEN that they can handle it. and where did you get 30% margin of error? no offense but im pretty sure your pulling numbers out your ass. THE LIMIT AND MARGIN OF ERROR IS IN THE OWNER AND BUILDER OF THE CAR! but sure eagle rods ARE stronger, but if you detonate at 30psi from bad tuning it wont matter what rods you have, your gonna break shit
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I gotta go with Jdub on this one. Why put a bunch of time and money into an engine you will be pushing to the (well known) limit of certain internal components. Jdub is just using engine building common sense, where as you are on some personal mission to see how far you can push stock components while risking a catostrophic failure. I don't care what the theoretical limit is on stock rods, I wouldn't push them past 500hp in my own engine. I would buy rods that can handle 1000hp if I was going to push the engine to 500+hp. That's what I'm doing on my own new engine build.
 
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Exactly, Aaron, Eagle rates their rods to 1500hp in our application. That is WELL above anything I'll be running! 3/8" ARP2000 bolts, not 5/16" bolts.
 
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Doward said:
That's why you use hibernation :D It's quick!

Do your gauges allow a frame by frame check , at your own pace?

As for pistons/rods - I've got Eagle Rods on the way. Fully machined forged rods > stock any day of the week.
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No but I do have MoTeC which can do that for me when I want ;) (and at my own pace) Playbacks are just for "in the moment" so to speak when I want to know what boost I hit and what egt's etc at that moment... :)

Duane
 
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Are the eagle rods really good for 1500hp? Is there any reason to run a more expensive unit? Anyone ever have problems with the eagle rods?
 
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Chances are I will never reach 1000hp anytime soon :) So does that mean anything more then eagle rods is overkill and a waste of money??

Or are there other benefits to getting higher end rods I don't know about?
 
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