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  1. OleBlackyLBZ

    LBZ cracked piston - What long block to with ?

    Ill know soon I guess how crappy they really are, anthony your user name makes perfect sense now haha
  2. OleBlackyLBZ

    LBZ cracked piston - What long block to with ?

    Well I really really hope yours was just a bad set, somethin seems off about all 8 bein bad within 30,000 miles. Lbz pistons aint even that crappy. What was ur air/fuel setup at that time? Also curious whos tuning you were running..
  3. OleBlackyLBZ

    LBZ cracked piston - What long block to with ?

    Also I called wagler since they use the mahle OE style pistons in their streetfighter series engines. They said they rate them for 800 hp but people are running them 1000+ and they are not aware of any piston problems so far. Anthony, did you just break one piston or multiple?
  4. OleBlackyLBZ

    LBZ cracked piston - What long block to with ?

    Hoping Anthony just had a lemon set of the mahle OE pistons, I just found out that's whats in my motor, not the isuzu/ gm lb7 pistons.
  5. OleBlackyLBZ

    Dmaxstore Connecting Rods

    That's really good food for thought, Andrew what's your thoughts and experience with arp main studs, how needed are they in big power builds?
  6. OleBlackyLBZ

    Dmaxstore Connecting Rods

    When I said "you'd be dumb" I was 100% sarcastically talking about myself and laughing because it seems there never a good place to stop with the crave for more power.
  7. OleBlackyLBZ

    Dmaxstore Connecting Rods

    I do not know from personal experience exactly everything that billet main caps help with which is why I've been curious, but from your advice as well as what everyone else has told me and said on other threads I would STILL run at least arp studs and billet caps if I ever had a really really...
  8. OleBlackyLBZ

    Dmaxstore Connecting Rods

    So If I was going to build a 1,000 hp motor that may go north one day then running at least billet main caps and even possibly a girdle is not a bad idea unless I was trying to meet a budget or just didn't have the cash.
  9. OleBlackyLBZ

    LBZ cracked piston - What long block to with ?

    Ya I would be interested to see if say after 50K miles of abuse if the coating would still be on the piston. I didn't have mine coated because I was unsure about it at the time. Kinda wish I'd tried it just to see like you said.
  10. OleBlackyLBZ

    Dmaxstore Connecting Rods

    Thanks, so the Billet main caps and girdle haven't been proven yet to help in 1,000 hp builds or they help but you just don't have to have them at that power level..?
  11. OleBlackyLBZ

    Dmaxstore Connecting Rods

    I agree I would for sure run the bd flexplate, you made 2200 ft lbs on stock springs and pushrods?
  12. OleBlackyLBZ

    LBZ cracked piston - What long block to with ?

    Anthony I apologize if it seemed like I jumped you about the lb7 pistons. I didn't mean anything bad I just really thought you didn't know lol, I quickly realized you knew more than me but again I apologize if I came across wrong.
  13. OleBlackyLBZ

    Dmaxstore Connecting Rods

    As far as anthony I had no ill intentions and was just confused and he set me straight and I learned something I didn't know and he was very nice about it, if it seemed like I was jumping him then I'm sorry to Anthony...as far as the girdle and main caps I wasn't meaning to call anyone else...
  14. OleBlackyLBZ

    Dmaxstore Connecting Rods

    I'm not concerned about being 50-75 ft lbs low on torque on the race tune, it shreds the tires on tune 4 at anything under about 40mph even with a rear locker, let alone the race tune. I was just meaning if you stay in that 1250 ft lbs torque range you may randomely break a crank or even crack a...
  15. OleBlackyLBZ

    LBZ cracked piston - What long block to with ?

    He is refering to my de-lipped lb7's
  16. OleBlackyLBZ

    LBZ cracked piston - What long block to with ?

    Too late, and that would have added $1650 to my $5900 longblock since the lb7 pistons were done there.
  17. OleBlackyLBZ

    Dmaxstore Connecting Rods

    There isn't much power if any removed under the curve on mine. And I worry more about breaking a crank than I do about bending a rod. This is the conclusion I came to.... Socal rods and motorsport pistons will both handle about 1,000 hp, SO If you put socal rods in then you might as well do...
  18. OleBlackyLBZ

    LBZ cracked piston - What long block to with ?

    That's awesome.. if you ever use in the range of 700-1,000 hp I'm very impressed with those pistons(I know some people drive easy). I'm around 675 on de-lipped lb7's but I mostly drive it on a 590ish hp tune. How do you think I will fair? I drive pretty hard but like I said I'm just a tad under...
  19. OleBlackyLBZ

    LASIK surgery

    What I posted above will get rid of cataracts.
  20. OleBlackyLBZ

    Dmaxstore Connecting Rods

    Verlon at ATP ran lbz rods on an lly tow rig for 30,000 miles on a 650hp tune with compounds seeing 40+ lbs boost for 2 and 3 minutes at a time. He cracked the de-lipped lly piston but the rods came out straight. Rob ran 675 for 4+ years on lbz rods with over 500 1/4 mile passes.. It's low rpm...
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