Re: [Amc-list] 199 rods in a 4.0l was Re: Rambler six comma fast

[Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>]

Wrambler242@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> What length are 196 and or 327 rods?
> Maybe something there?
> The 199 crank sure would keep the piston "up in the bore"!

WOAH.

Datson's book sez:

OHV comp height 2.1875
rod length 6.825"

Not a typo!

And of course it's forged.

Immediately following that (man, its' hard to find stuff in these books) 
is a paragraph on Navarro -- that he "may have" run 195.6 rods in the 
Indy six. The big end of the rod is the same as later AMC (2.095 -3 +5), 
the little end different, and the rod would need to be narrowed (bearing 
is .964" wide). But that's 1.609" longer than stock! Umm hard to make 
that all up in compression height!
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