Thanks for the explanation. I will resist asking you about the chevy 350
rod conversion. My reaction would be that the 1750 engine was used in a
lot of cars; if there were a problem with rod bolts, I would think the
factory would have changed them pretty quickly. But who knows. The
mechanic who did my 948 Sprite engine pitched all the rod bolts (soft, he
said), pitched the locking tabs (how can you torque something with soft
metal crap under the head?), and put in grade 8 bolts torqued to specs.
It is still together.
Ray Gibbons Dept. of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics
Univ. of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, VT
gibbons(at)northpole.med.uvm.edu (802) 656-8910
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