Engine internal Q's

[MotorMouth]

Well I have alot of my engine parts together and have a few observations and questions...

Observations:
I am using L-35 rods and and comparing them to the stockers I noticed a few things. The beams are a bit narower than the stockers (.050" as I recall) but there is a huge differance in the shoulder area of the big end. There is lot more metal there compared to the stockers. I will try to get some comparsion pics this week.

Questions:
I purchased the Speed Pro .030" over pistons and they have a floating wrist pin with retainers. The L-35 rods appear to be the same as the stockers in that the wrist pin is pressed in the small end of the rod.

Now my question....Do the pistons or rods need any modifications or are the pins just pressed in to the rods w/o any problems? Also, can you still use the retainers for the pins or no?

I am just trying to get a idea of what kind of x-tra work may need to be done by the machine shop (I am not going to do the work I am going to have a local machine shop do the short block assembly).

Thanks.....

Brian

 

[myclone]

Any compitant machine shop can modify the rods for floating pins for a few bucks.

Just go in to your machine shop of choice with your rods and tell them you want them "bushed for floating pins". They'll know what youre talking about.

I personally like to use floating pins with spiro locks as well as have the top of the small end of the rod drilled with an oiling hole. Other ppl dont do that while others, like me, will. Personal preference I guess :-? .

Oh, you might want to take one/all of the pins with you as the shop may want them so they can hone the bushing for correct size.