08-05-2004, 08:15 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Louisville,
KY
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FE Rods...Tell me how bad I messed up
Guys...I just placed a bid on a set of FE rods and pistons.....used....My bid is only $34....which isn't bad. Of course I wasn't planning on using the pistons.....
Here's where I messed up....I read my FE rod identification book wrong....and I thought I was bidding on Lemans rods. After I looked at the book for about 20 minutes, I seen I wasn't bidding on Lemans rods....but now it's too late.
These are C7AE-B rods....it says they're 428ci hipo rods or also 68 427 hipo rods.
I normally wouldn't buy used connecting rods for an engine....but you could see my excitement when I thought I was buying Lemans stuff.
Question is....would these rods be beefy enough (upon further inspection, cleaning, shotpeening, etc.) for a 500hp FE engine? No 9500rpm's here....but probably around 6000-6500.
I wanna know how much money I just threw away.
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