Press Fit vs. Full Floating Wrist Pins

yellow rose said

To screw around and correctly rebuild a set of rods is almost as much as new rods. And you still end up with STOCK RODS. That's crazy. If you think any OEM put connecting rods in their basic passenger car,
surface transportation they did not. They used what they engineered to make it past warranty and then build in a factor and called it good.

Don't step over donuts to pick up dog poop.

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OP asked for opinions, I gave him mine.......I grant you that Mother Mopar didn't spend lots of money in design, materiel, construction of their rods....in comparison to other factory offerings though, they are are stout....I am of the opinion that if the big end is checked and is in speck to yield a good crush, there is little need to go any further.....I have never seen a broken rod bolt, I've seen broken rods, but not bolts. A mag inspection is a good idea, but I have also by-passed that on more than one occasion with no ill effects. A while ago a member from Oz posted a question about how much a stock rod could take.....he claimed he was pushing upwards of 700 hp on a stock rod in a boosted turbo application....I commented that I thought he had already defined for us what a stock rod would take.......he could have been lying, who knows....what I took away from all of it was that hp is not your first enemy in engine death, it is rpm, YR you yourself have stated in the past that anything less than 8000rpm is nothing........so the OP's 6500 estimate is just off idle to you and I think is well with in the capabilities of a stock rod.

Again, my opinion......