Who sells carillo at a good price.

 

Yeah it sucked! I had just bought this motor from CFM Performance, they were selling it on ebay. I had like 20 minutes on the engine, and thru the rod. It busted a hole about the size of a tennis ball in the bottom of the engine, ruining both halves of the cases and busted up a bunch of gears. Anyway, after doing alittle checking on some of the engine builder sites, most of them highly recommend putting in a race rod if you are going to a big bore and higher compression. So I bought the carillo rod from sparks racing. I think they call it something else like spark race rod or something, but the guy that built my engine ( Rick Ritter ) said it is a carillo.

 

Sorry to hear that man - its not uncommon - Like I said in other forums - the idiots that bore sometimes dont get it right. If its off center - your hosed! Thats a lot of stress for a rod to handle. A lot of folks here in this forum think the cause is a rod, when in fact its a problem with the bore. Sorry you got stuck with that off of ebay. Unfortunatly, thats probably why it was there to begin with - that sucks!

 

Well I thought about that... I mean the ebay thing and getting junk. But I dont see how a person would know that an engine was about to throw a rod. That engine was supposedly built by CT Racing. But who knows, it could be that the bore was out. But if you are doing an engine and you can afford it, I would recommend putting a heavier rod in. There is quite a bit of difference between the stock and carillo and it takes out that variable.

 

Ernie, what are you doing over here giving out the good stuff LOL

 

Somebody has to XRwarrior, hope everyone has a Merry Christmas...[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img]

 

..I dunno,i think it is the rod..looking at it is nothing,the rod streachs then breaks..go with Falicon, or carillo rod..But if it is how the boreing is done,id like to know how or what is done wrong to break the rod?..I think anything over 10.1 stock or 440 and it should be fine..
..Other thing to keep in mind is clutch basket..they will blow..this i know...2 hour drive to dunes 15 min's ride basket blows... back 2 hour drive home..sucked..