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General => The garage => Topic started by: peterg60 on 13 February 2012, 20:03
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dont know if this in right section but here goes. ive currently got a agu k03s running in my mk1 golf project . ive decided to to upgrade the turbo to a ko4 hybrid . now my question is will i be fine on stock rods? ive been reading about and see some guys running 354.9hp 418.7Nm with a GT2860RS on stock intenalls (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gvy-ovxgG9U) quite a few people . what do people think ?
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Wouldnt dare go over 300lbft on any 1.8T rods!
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dont know if this in right section but here goes. ive currently got a agu k03s running in my mk1 golf project . ive decided to to upgrade the turbo to a ko4 hybrid . now my question is will i be fine on stock rods? ive been reading about and see some guys running 354.9hp 418.7Nm with a GT2860RS on stock intenalls (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gvy-ovxgG9U) quite a few people . what do people think ?
I bet that isn't slow... :huh: :nerd:
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if you don't care if they come out the side, and have a spare engine they'll take it. if are botherd about the chance of it going bang and don't have a spare engine it most defantly will go bang
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the rods on the 1.8t arnt weak by any means, there just not strong :grin:
If you want big power and reliablilty you really need to do some changes, rods, bolts etc.. the rest of the engine will be fine generally, im not sure what the pistons are limited too, they are very light in these melt easily, but if its set up correctly that wont be an issue, even with bigger power.
but... if you run a K04 the rods will be fine generally, its just down to the level of boost your running, us passat guys often run the garrett setup on stock rods and i have never heard of one failing yet, but generally if you go to that sort of effort, internal engine changes go hand in hand, its the compromise between power an reliablity again.