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The rod journals on the Compstar rods must be sized to spec, in this case 2.1250 inches. For proper bolt stretch, the ARP 2000 rod bolts are torqued to 75 lb-ft. Rod-to-pin clearance is only .0006 inch, so Rinaldi opens them up .0001 inch (as he would on a racing engine), to keep the pins from hanging up on the rods and thus spin more freely....
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 The rod journals on the Compstar rods must be sized to spec, in this case 2.1250 inches. For proper bolt stretch, the ARP 2000 rod bolts are torqued to 75 lb-ft. Rod-to-pin clearance is only .0006 inch, so Rinaldi opens them up .0001 inch (as he would on a racing engine), to keep the pins from hanging up on the rods and thus spin more freely....  View Related Article

 

 

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