just buying a bunch of tools, iv been at lake powell for the past 10 days

 

alright man, take your time

hope you had fun

 

gonna have an update tuesday night, getting some very important parts/tools in

 

I cant belive im just seeing this thread now.

Good luck on the rest of what looks like the best and prettiest build i have seen. I hope to see some nice numbers and pics once its all set up.

Good job man, looking awesome...

 

if you dont mind me askin, how much do you have in the build so far and how much do you plan to have in at the end? Btw, I'm in love with this build, nice job and good luck

 

the benson block sleeves were $1025, cp pistons were $550, tuner toy rods $235, Arp bolts $150, all new oem parts and gaskets $350.

i am figuring between $6000 and $7000 including topmount and a gt30r, thats $2500 right there when the motor is in and running awesome, then the car has to get a paintjob(champ white), carbon fiber goodies. probably to much man lol. Im way over building everything .

 

is 235 for rods considered a good price?? what would be considered cheap or expensive for decent quality rods, that maybe can go up to 4 or 500 horses. and what other brands would you suggest??

 

almost all h-beams are from the same manufacture, just when they get to eagle, scat, tuner toys they all do there own little things like bore the wrist pin, put in arp bolts etc. The scat or eagle rods are right around the $300 dollar range which can withstand high 500+ hp and high reving. If you can get ahold of the tuner toy rods with the s2000 bolts they go for 250 bucks and can handle the same amount of power.

 

how about these rods from tuner toys, they don't say anything about s2000 studs but they do say that they can take up to 700 hp, and i think that they are the official tuner toys site

http://tunertoys.zoovy.com/product/R3-5394-AH

 

yeah thats the site, they come with the 8740 bolts which arnt designed to rev over 7000 i bolieve. they are good rods though