All Small Six 250 Engine Build

[twentyover]

I will not start a 250 fordsix engine project.... I will not start a 250 fordsix engine project.... I will not start a 250 fordsix engine project.... I will not start a 250 fordsix engine project....

Crap. It followed me home

74 Maverick, runs good. So the junyard tag says.

I am an idiot

 

[twentyover]

And the beat goes on... The drum keeps pounding rhythm to the brain....

So a coupla weeks ago i picked up a 250. Struggle in my head about how to build it. Was initially thinking about following Lavron's build, but it appears both he and comet6 found the 2,5 HSC rods longer than published, and comet6 indicates he may have the last full set on the planet. Lavron and comet 6 had different fixes for the long rod, both could work.

So where to go for longer rods? Manley has an H beam rod for a Barra, 6.058 long, problem is pin bore is 0.8671 and the price of $883. Ouch. Scat and Boostline offer similar products for similiar prices. Tomorrow's phone call will ask can the pin bore be, well, bored to 0.912.

Pauter offers an X beam (I guess that's what they call it) rod they identify for use in "STRAIGHT 6, 246-250." It's 6.055 center to center, w/ a 0.912 pin bore. Tomorrow's phone call will be cost and availability (Pauter recently had the forging house they used close it's door, so they are needing to retool forge dies)

Third option is early Ford 300 rods. By the time you put good rod bolts in them, resize, polish beams and shot peen, you're looking at the same kind of money as aftermarket Barra rods

More research ahead

 

[Jmustang_65]

Chevy inline 6 Rods an option?

5.7 fitted with arp bolts $260 a set

194-230-250 Rod Set

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6.0 - I beam rods $440 a set

6" Connecting Rod 194-230-250 SPA Budget version

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