Titanium connecting rods for sbm 416
Thank you for your insight rumblefish. What you say does make sense. I plan on going to a reputable engine builder locally here and see what they think I should do. I just wanted to get some ideas before I headed there. Only experience I have with modified engines is the bbf I had in my old mud truck. This is a little different build with a stroker sbm.
I'm going to be blunt, because it's all I know how to do.
If you want to spin the guts out of a small block Chrysler, and you are looking at Ti rods, you have no business doing it. If it was easy, everyone would be able to do it.
I have done it. The stack of parts it took to get it right would buy you a house.
Before you even consider rods, you better spend all your money on Ti valves, the best, strongest, lightest retainers and locks you can buy, and that ain't titanium.
What are you doing for rockers? How are you going to oil the pushrods and adjusters?
What are you going to do for lifters?
What block do you have? Better not be a pcar block or you'll be LUCKY if you don't lose power over 7500. Ask me how I know.
You should really have roller cam bearings. With the spring loads you'll need, it's damn near impossible to keep the cam off the bearings.
And then there is the oil timing issue. Unless you have a late model race block, you MUST fix the oil timing, or you will be throwing rods out of the block so fast, you'll need to stock several engines worth of parts just to keep up with everything you junk.
If your heads and induction can't keep up, you'll have to run so much cam, the car will be a pig in the gear change. Ask me how I know.
I know everyone talks about turing 8000 plus. I have never met anyone with dyno numbers to prove they did it. I have. I still have the first set of heads I personally did that made power over 8000. It took everything I had, a tunnel ram and a tig welder to get it done.
Just my .02. You are better off keeping the RPM under 7200. I didn't see what you think spinning th guts out of one is, but the learning curve is zero. You'll get no second chances. One small error is a catastrophic disaster. Ask me how I know.
