How Daily Driveable Would This be??

[BJ91T]

About to start on my new setup but I am a little worried about how this thing will be on the daily commute and longer trips. Looking at both aspects here both reliabilty and drivability. The setup is as follows 40 over 7m-gte,Je pistons and rings,either stock reconed rods or eagles (help me decide on that to),New oil pump etc...,Maft Pro in speed density,Greddy e-01 for boost display and controll,turbonetics 62-1 bolt-on turbo (water and oil cooled),ported manifold,550 cc rc's,AFRP,spec stage 3,fidanza FW, stock oil cooler,cooleze pipes,spearco relica IC (small).

Thats all I can think of for now
Thanks
BJ

 

[MKIIINA]

should be fine. check out my sig for my setup and i dd it. might want to get the stage 2 as its a bit smoother and as a full face disc it will last longer

 

[boostadikt]

that is quite a bit less than what i have in my car, and i daily drive mine 60 miles a day with no problems. that will be a bad ass street machine too

 

[Justin727]

get eagle rods

 

[BJ91T]

yeah I think for the price I will

 

[Justin727]

i would also suggest a different clutch setup such as RPS

 

[supra_ed]

why wouldn't this be daily-drivable? ive heard too many bad things about eagle (especially quality control with the import stuff), even guys at titan advised me to beef up stockers before buying eagle. stock, reconditioned, shot-peened rod w/ arp will take a lot of abuse. although.....we did put eagle rods in a small-block chevy circle-track car. just my 2-cents

 

[Justin727]

u check out mike malloys thread? his stock rods failed at 550hp give or take a few?
Theres guys running eagles in their 7M's without any problems 550+hp.... heck I'm one of them! I also bought my Eagles from Titan!

 

[BJ91T]

i dont know yet I've heard very good things about eagles products but I will have to see once I compare a few prices. As for the clutch Since I got the spec for the uber cheap It will stay for now.

 

[Justin727]

i dont know yet I've heard very good things about eagles products but I will have to see once I compare a few prices. As for the clutch Since I got the spec for the uber cheap It will stay for now.

Heck if you got it super cheap then keep it for a while. I went with spec stage 3 before installing it I sold it to my buddy carlos. Needless to say with his car pretty much stock it started slipping 10k miles after install. yes he broke it in the proper way also! Spec is a hit or miss thing. Some people have good luck with them and some don't.

 

[supra_ed]

hell, titan told me they have broken a 2j eagle rod at only 500hp. ive seen some making 600+ on beefed up stockers. u win some, u lose a lot. one thing for sure, told hear about a crower/pauter rod breakin a lot. u get wat u pay for

 

[BJ91T]

carlos with the white car? from kiln

 

[Justin727]

I want to say that was addressed someone correct me if i'm wrong but it was said that the eagle/arp bolts were the components that failed due to high revs none of which most of us 7M guys will ever get to but there are ways to fix that by replacing the bolt but that gets just as expensive. I have yet to see any eagles fail for the 7M.
Shoot they throw in the eagle crank,rods, and sealed power kits in the dirt track cars here all the time. Havent really seen them fail unless sever oil starvation and other things failing before the rods do.

 

[Justin727]

carlos with the white car? from kiln

Yup that carlos. He bought a HPF bronze sprung disc(rebuildable btw) He will buy a RPS pressure plate next!

 

[BJ91T]

yeah I met him at the mandeville meet nice guy

 

[Justin727]

Yea he is a pretty cool dude! i try to lend him a hand whenever I can!

 

[supra_ed]

eagle has been around for a long time. i have no doubt that they know wat they are doin....as far as american iron. like i said my dad used eagle bottom end in small block chevy roundy-round car- sustained high rpm- w/ no issue. eagle is up in the air w/ imports because of quality control. its still a relatively new market for them- compared to muscle. but they might be fine now, who knows. i personally didn't want to take chance. a lot of work to do over again

 

[BJ91T]

Yeah my two options were either
*eagles
*new stock rods stress relived,arps,and new bushings to use the Je pistons

 

[Justin727]

iirc KWNATE is running eagles in his 800hp+ setup.... The choice is yours which ever you would like to go with..

 

[supra_ed]

IF u use stock, get them checked and shot-peened. should not be more than 10 bucks a rod. at least thats wat i payed on my old setup