Bottom End Rebuild Planning

CNC-Dude said

Not knowing your final goal for HP, its difficult to make suggestions. But you should install better fasteners in the rods, mains and head. Several guys on .org have had parts failure in their bottom ends(stock connecting rods) even with ARP rod bolts at the 300-ish HP level. So Molnar rods may be a good consideration as an upgrade as well....

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Thanks. In my reading I did see that the Molnars are only available for the forged crank, though it seems some people have machined the rods thinner to work with the cast crank. Mine I'm 99% sure is a cast crank so I'd either have to do that or to find a forged crank engine to rebuild instead and then drop in later.

I think I'd be reasonably content if I ended up in the 250-300 hp range when done.