For decades, engine-builders have been tightening rod bolts with a torque wrench and getting away with it. But in today's high-performance world where we push engines to make a ton more power and spin ...

Now consider that the only thing holding your expensive piston/rod combination on the crank are the two bolts connecting the rod cap to the rod. In a V-8, that's 16 rod bolts bearing the load of the ...

We’ve noticed a shortcut that some engine builders take that could cause severe engine damage. The hack is to adjust the torque setting for a pair of rod bolts in one rod to produce the required ...