I'm planing to send my h23a1 block off to golden eagle in a month to get bored 1mm and sleeved. This being my first build i priced Arias pistons from golden eagle for about $550. Well now i'm looking for h23 rods that i can only find from Crower that are $770. Now what i'm getting to is that i plan to be turbo-ed in the next coming year. I want to push about 20 lb's of boost. So with this all said is there any other brands of rods that are cheaper, because i truly do not want to spend close to a grand on rods when there might be a better cheaper rod for my needs.

I know that this post doesn't 100% go with this thread, but this was the best place i could see.

 

Why do you want to push 20psi ?
What is your power goal ?

 

yeah it is more important to know what kinda power you are looking for. A
8.5:1 compression car on 20 lbs is a completely different car than a 10:1 compression car with the same turbo setup on the same ammount of boost. I would not cut corners since you are sleeving it already. When you get bored you dont have to worry if the "fleabay" rods you saved $100 on are gonna hold when you up to the extra boost. You are already doing the block right keep it up and spend the extra money to have a bullet proof bottom end. So, that when you get bored you can jump to 35lbs+ without a rebuild because the rods cant hold.

just my $.02 though

 

I want about 400 hp to the wheels at least and 500 hp at most. Crower only makes I beam rods for h23 right? Shouldn't i get H beams are something? I heard there stronger. If thats true wouldn't that be better if i was going to be boosted?