I want to start building soem internals for my 00 civic si i bolted on a revhard stage 2 turbo kit and plan to boost around 7 lbs what rods have you had better luck with any recommendations? Any pros or cons on either Crower or Eagle or a different brand that you have used thanks.

 

eagle is much cheaper than crower and it will hold 7lbs all day every day!!!!

 

thanks for feedback what if i decide to boost maybe a little more like to 10 still go with eagle?

 

ask stan about his eagles, not too pretty

 

what happened?

 

I run 16psi and I had no problems with my eagle rods

 

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If you were going to run 7lbs of boost all the time, the Eagles will work just fine. However, I have a feeling you will eventually run more. Boost is addicting and we all want more. Spend the extra money and buy the crowers. Don't take the risk of stretching or snapping a rod bolt. You will end up paying much more in the long run if something goes wrong. Saving $300-400 is not worth it.

 

ok now im scared to use my eagle rods

 

are you planning on new pistons too?
if yes, then eagles are fine, i think they come standard with the arp bolts now.
if no, then keep stock one until they go, then rebuild.

just make sure you have good tuning.

 

i will never build another motor with eagle rods.

 

i ran eagle rods in my b16 for about 2 years no problems. im now switching to manleys for the next project.

 

if you are planning to leave it at low boost (&lt;14psi) then eagle rods would be okay for your setup.

 

u can run 10psi on stock rods. why won;t eagles handle more? my plan, Je pistons, and eagle rods. with darton sleeves in a d16z6 runing 14-20psi daily. why do people hate eagle so much? i think this setup would be better than turbopanda's b16arods with toyota pistons. atleast their forged. and he was running 18psi daily. WTF is wronge with eagle's?

 

JJ Olson and Angela Proudfoot both sat out the last few rounds at Englishtown a few weeks ago because there were eagle rods sticking out of the side of their motors...

 

Usually poor tuning and overconfidence is the cause of rod destruction. Of course you should use a stronger rod for forced induction due to the increased cylinder pressures, but detonation can destroy any rod. Tuning is the key.

 

For 7psi your stock internals will last a long, long time if you proper tuning.

Here we go again on the old hating against Eagle rod bandwagon.

 

tony1 : how much power was their car making ???

 

Ohh gosh here we go again. Almost every company has a rod failure, **** happens. But there are a lot of people that still have great success with both brands of rods. For 500whp Eagles are fine. If you wanna get into the 575-650+HP range then get some Full-Race rods. I run Eagles in my motor 10.5psi, 390+whp, 9500rev limit, no problems. Going to turn up the boost, it's all about tuning man.

 

eagle rods here. no problems so far.

 

Eagles @8psi daily

at 14psi I would be above the 350whp mark which is very unstreetable where I live....I usually run between 6psi-11psi at close to 300whp and the eagles are doing very well...(knock wood)


While we are on the topic, I bought my Eagles from Larry at Endyn. Does anyone know if he does anying special to the rods?

 

thanks

 

they offer upraded bolts for eagle rods.. - i guess thats one failure with these rods, so you can torque them to 46 instead of 23

any of chaper ones are made across the seas - the reason for lower pricing, but doesn't mean its lower quality.

thers also ef-1, probe rods in same price range

 

eagles will be more thna fine for anyones needs here, just people dont pay attention to the specs when they put thme together and /or not tuned right and they have probs.
its all preference. peopl bash on eagles becuase they see someone that broke them here an there. . . **** breaks, dont matter if its eagle or crowers, or pauters, they break for the same reasons .

 

im looking at my crowers right now .. mmmmmm