Brian Cower rods, or Eagle rods?

[DJ Cool Breeze]

If you could chose which ones to put in your SR what one would you go with?

The shop that im buying all my rebuild parts at has both of these connecting rods for the same price-$365 Is there one company better then the other? they are both H beam rods if that helps.

I have searched and it seems most people on here have said that they were both good, but the funny thing is, most of the people talking about these rods dont even have them on thier own car. its one of their "friends" cars, or "someone they knew" that had them on a car......anyone have any first hand experience with them? and if so can you give me a little feed back on these two rods?

Thanks,Dan
Modified by DJ Cool Breeze at 11:02 AM 4/10/2007

[DJ Cool Breeze]

No one here can give any feed back on these 2 products????? need to buy one or the other in just a few days,,any info would be great!

[homeslicej2]

I personally don't own/have never owned either, but I know that Eagle has been around for quite some time and has offered good stuff. I have seen a rod of their's from a motor that hydrolocked and instead of snapping and stabbing into the block it just bent at the beam and bunched up like crushed soda/pop/coke can. The rod was useless but they said that the cylinder only needed a slight overbore and re-hone to get the motor running again. If that had happened with a stock rod it would have destroyed the block. I don't know anything about BC but have heard that it is decent stuff. I think you'll be good with either choice. Sorry if this doesn't help any. I do know that a lot of domestic guys use Eagle.

[DJ Cool Breeze]

thanks for the reply bro....i have heard of a few domestic cars that have run eagle parts and they seemed to like the product. I have heard good things of bc rods as well. I just want the best posible product in my car. I dont want to have to go through tearing down the motor again. I guess ill go with eagle rods unless someone can give me reason not to or has some info on the brian crower rods for me

thanks again homeslice.

[homeslicej2]

No problem man. I suppose if you want the very best then JUN or Tomei is the way to go, but then again their rods are ~$1100. Crower or Pauter too, but theirs run ~$700-800. You might try Enjuku's ER Spec rods too. They are $280 versus the $350 for Eagles (Enjuku's price) and they are fixed up nice:

All rods are OEM factory SR20DET connecting rods that go through our ER Spec reconditioning process at Jim Stewart Engines. This is the same set of hands we trust with our maching work for our block and heads for the race motor builds, so rest assured of the work quality!

Specifications on the rods is as follows:

* Each rod is magnafluxed to check for ANY cracks. Any sign of cracking or casting failure and the rod is discarded. * ARP Rod Bolts are installed. * Both housing bores on each end are resized and reconditioned. * Each rod is balanced to within <1 gram of each end. * All rods are balanced to within <1 gram of each other.

With the ER Spec reconditioning we have done 400-450whp reliably on daily driven street builds.

Just a thought if your power goals aren't really high (400whp in a DD 240 is a lot). Eagles are rated to ~500 crank hp.

[luv2spedup]

i went with brian crower rods cause they are the same as crower but i can't give you any feed back yet cause my motor was just built and i am waiting to drop it in, well good luck with your build

[exode]

eagle rods are meh