Thread: Floaters vs. Semi-Floaters

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I was looking at Summit's connecting rods the other day and noticed that I could get a new set of bushed rods for $240. I believe the mean bushed for full floating wrist pins. Anyways, it would probably cost $240 to get my current rods reconditioned and the idea of converting to full floating wrist pins is very appealing. Of course I would polish them so they would be like their stage 2 rods because I plan on running greater than 9.0:1 compression. I know full floating wrist pins can support more weight than press fit, and more importantly they are easy to assemble. What other advantages are there and what kind of disadvantages am I looking at for a daily driven work truck. Do these rods even work with full floating pins? I thought they were bushed so they would, but Summit's web page says otherwise (typo maybe?).

A full float pin has the ends ground to a specific length and flat, a pressed pin does not. One disadvantage of a full float pin is one more area to wobble when things get lose from wear.. One of the reasons most big bore production engines are pressed, better stability in the bore. Less noise. For a go to work truck I'd go with pressed pins. Check Ebay for pressed pin rods. I've bought several sets of new Eagle rods 5.7 press pin for $110.00 and less.