29-07-2013, 09:23 PM
(29-07-2013, 09:14 PM)Tom Wrote:(29-07-2013, 09:03 PM)Piggy Wrote: yup. sods law that xud rods dont blow on pellowes but a hdi rod'd td04 with less power punches a hole at tick over.
forged if you have a good bank account!
What your all forgetting is hdi rods are stronger thicker better made, and significantly less people have spat a hdi rod in comparison to an xud rod. Obviously if you want to go for big power and want to know for sure the rods arent going to give out and you can afford it, by all means go forged. But theres NO chance of spitting a hdi rod on idle, its only the dodgy xud ones that do stuff like that! It all depends where your powerband is going to be aswell, because if your not making silly high cylinder pressures i would of thought the chances of rod breakage are alot less?
(29-07-2013, 09:04 PM)Teddy Wrote: he has but if u buy forged rods least u will get some money back if u decide to sell
Didnt he start having trouble with heads then? I think thats why Darren moved to DI :/
To be fair though, think of how many XUD's with HDI rods in that have blown compared to stock XUD rods.... Much higher percentage if I'm honest. But yes, people running HDI rods are generally on pretty high tunes so compare that to high tuned XUD's that have spat rods and it's probably pretty even.
In my honest opinion and I'm sure others will agree, I think rod spitting is 90% of the time down to the driver and the set-up of the pump and turbo. There's a few on here pushing near double stock power for a fair long time now.
SO if you have the money,go forged, and build it to the highest spec you can get. But if your going to have to strip down an engine just to fit HDI rods it's not worth the time and money unless your got it apart already.
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