02-05-2018, 11:20 PM
Blew 2 perfectly good 91 to pieces with HoloKromes. rod caps were the broken part with the broken rod bolts still in the rods. The west bend rod problem (the stock bolt is junk) was the rod itself. If one would take the time to look at the rod information I posted on here, On YouTube and our facebook page (Welte racing) I point out the weak points of the rod. the one rod i hadn't seen was the one used in the Engines from the US 820 kart series. After buying up a box of these engines that were blown to bits I see that the particular rod had the slopped shoulder much like the new rod has but has a lower cap that is very weak right next to the rod bolt. Yep, that is exactly where the blown US 820 kart rods were broken. Put the best bolt in the world in one of those old rods and you still got a ticking time bomb. My 2 cents is that all those 180K bolts are never going in my engines. It is far cheaper to use the best bolt than to sacrifice a complete engine to bolts selected out of a box of 100 you paid $12.00 for.