how.... pulling the rod apart from both its ends and subjecting it to the greatest force that it will experience when revving mad at 10,000RPM, and then also performing a compression test where you would then see how much the rods can cope with equivalent of a piston downward force before it starts to bend or etc, all being monitores by laser measurements.
i know such labs exists and are widely used for testing structural steel used in bridges and buildings to test strength and other properties of a steel. and some smaller engineering companies must be able to do these tests on engine components, i am sure, though i am guessing.
I agree with your statement as forces being applied on a test rig are applied uniformly in a smooth incremental fashion, and are therefore different to forces subjected inside an engine revving mad, where sudden thrust on a rod would probably bend/crack as well as the action of other forces acting on that rod may break them at a much lower stress value than on a rig. :beer:
I paid R3500 for Scat rods here in south africa about 8 months ago in pounds that would be 231 pounds. They are scat and look identical to the ones available from ebay
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