Okay so... i ordered mahle piston kit through summit this morning... those guys are awesome they price matched so i got an awesome deal. i will soon be ordering all clevite bearings. and now im curious on the main cap bolts... can i used stock main bolts with my build? dont plan on taking apart the bottom end. will be using arp rod bolt for sure tho

 

Pistons came in today! Ordered all the bearings today from summit... all i need to get is rod bolts and main bolts and off to the shop we go...

 

Are you asking if you can reuse your old main bolts?

 

new oem bolts??? im thinking bout going with new oem rod and main bolts.... its going to be a N/A motor wont rev past 62 -6300rpms between 10 and 10.5 to 1 comp

 

Arp..

 

Agreed! On the rod bolts I would run the ARP bolts 100% but on the mains I would prob do stock bolts to save money.

 

arp rod bolts has been my dilema.... from what i have read is that when just changing bolts out and putting arp inplace of oem there seems to be no problems... but if its a complete rebuild there seems to be some hesitation..im just worried about the arp's putting too much clamping force on the cracked cap design rods... any insight on this or should i not be worried

 

What power level is your goal? Are you using any power adders? Stock bolts in the bottom end are good for quite a bit.

If you decide on ARP rod bolts, or ARP mains, I'd recommend you have your machine shop check to see if any resizing or align-honing is necessary. Seems like there's more possibility of "distorting" the bearing journals with the ARP's.

 

im shooting for 350 to the wheels. anything over 300 and id be happy. strictly N/A i just want it to be a fun dd and take it to the strip a couple times a year

 

I'd just run the stock main & rod bolts.