Brad Smith
12th February 2009, 05:50 PM
Anyone advise which ARP bolt will work when rebuilding stock rods. My 1.8 was tired already w/a sucked-in air cleaner bolt to finish it off, and that is how I bought my 77 Scorpion. Now have a 2L Beta block w/ the ear cut down and found a set of 85mm mondials in California and some std Clevites and Federal Moguls in Texas for my rebuild. As the ARP catalog does not list Fiat etc does anyone know what bolt will work?. Although the 2L looked like it had never been apart I do not know what kind of abuse it had prior to me glomming onto it. Plan in shot peening and polishing the rods etc. I see GC advises that stock Fiat was typically within 3 grams on factory balance but I don't know how close these 1mm OS mondials will end up so I plan on balancing everything anyway after I'm done redoing the rods. I am not familar w/ interchangability on this stuff as I'm used to my domestic big block bad habits.