Please tell me what i have here

[paul735]

I figure its the only way to find out.


I guess they are std pistons but the rods dont look std

[Roger Miller]

........nearly stock pinto rods.

STD bolts.


Have a look up inside piston for markings, if any

Hmm not liking the bearing wear area.......need better pics though.

[gen mk 1rs2000]

i remember having this conversation with nev once !
i was lead to the conclusion in the early days that
the rods with the [sdfa }(all small lower case lettering) stamping being standard rods
the specialy selected ford competition
rods with the last 2 letters BA " sdfBA " stamped in capital letters
same as in your pic were suposed to be better & suposed to be fitted to a mk1 rs & german rs , but i cant be sure
i honestly dont know the diference between the 2 but was always told these were better ,

bottom line being they are probably crap if you wanna rev the thing hard
but could be better than std & most likely "period corect"

[paul735]

[gen mk 1rs2000]

[Roger Miller]

[paul735]

Heres a pic...



I also wondered about the heat marks, looks like they were heated so the pins could be pushed through.

[Roger Miller]

[gen mk 1rs2000]

[Neville Bertwistle]

They just look like nicely prepped standard rods to me.

Hmmm... 7500rpm.... the head is saying "maybe" for short term use but then a lot of other people with a heavier right foot than mine have proved otherwise. After all that's all they used in the early Group C days and they used to flog them to death for hours.

[Warren Heath]

[Roger Miller]

[paul735]