Piston Rods

[cam1993]

Durind a complete enging rebuild (in progress), I discovered a rod that was slightly bent. An engine shop said that the 3.4 engine has a factory defect and that one of the intake bolts passes through the water jacket and sometimes allows water to enter the cyllinder. Anyone heard this before? (And who sells aftermarket rods for this car?)

[Tiago]

hven't heard of intake bolts, ,but head bolts yea.
as for rods, any small block 5.7 inch rod can be usedd with little mods.

[99BlueSuperSix]

<blockquote>quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Tiago NOS'd Bird:
hven't heard of intake bolts, ,but head bolts yea.
as for rods, any small block 5.7 inch rod can be usedd with little mods.<hr></blockquote>

:eek: and I thought I was the only one who knew this infobit

[Tiago]

<blockquote>quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by 99BlueSuperSix:


:eek: and I thought I was the only one who knew this infobit<hr></blockquote>

haha, right, its common knowledge. [img]smile.gif[/img]

[viper98885]

2 Questions:
1) What kind of modification has to be done to the rod?
2)I am a distributor for Manley and I was looking at their catalog. They list a connecting rod with a -small journal size and a -large journal size. I am assuming that we would use the small one, but does anyone know for sure?

[Tiago]

the modification is some material has to be taken off in the width. I have the exact numbers somewhere, let me know if u need em.

[cam1993]

I'd definitely like to know the numbers. I can't find aftermarket rods specific to this engine anywhere.