MercRod????

[powerabout]

doweled caps

[H2OPERF]

When you start with this you gotta wonder how they hold up at all with the huge lateral marks.. Stuff that makes you loose sleep.

[Capt.Insane-o]

Jerry Dale designed a hell of a motor, all they had to do was make it bigger, but nope.

[Chaz]

When you start with this you gotta wonder how they hold up at all with the huge lateral marks.. Stuff that makes you loose sleep.

Lookin for stress risers .. lots of choices there ..
Smart enough to transition from "only the threads ya need" to a large radiused approach to the beam .. yet not put in the effort to finish the rod's exterior after it comes out of the hammer ..

[Chaz]

A while back I sent a pretty good deposit to one of the largest steel rod manufactures in the country with a design sheet and some basic parameters .
8620 steel , carburized to 60+ Rockwell on both ends , fractured cap , beams strong enough that if it stuck a piston .. the motor would stop now .. instead of 5 say go , 1 say's whowww .. break the toothpick and saw the motor in half before it came to a stop .. No problem … 10 weeks later they sent me my money back and said .. No thanks ..
Is it too much to ask for a rod mfg to make a rod of proper shape and size to handle the load ..



Or to use another method of preventing "cap twist".. Nope , it's just easier to build the same ole S.B. Chevy rods … over and over again ..

[H2OPERF]

Those are some cool caps, rods def would fix the weak link in those motors. Wonder how often Mr. Yamasuki gets those tongs caught in the forge, amazing how much work is done by hand. Ever watch the forged in fire show, be cool to try that some day, the liquid paper amazes me.

[Chaz]

I dont watch that show for two reasons ..
1) After being a blacksmith all day , might as well go put in a night shift ..
2) I'd have to start building a Bessemer blast furnace of my own …

Chaz= thinkin, with one of those I could carburize my own rods …

Chaz= wunderin, were those places OSHA approved ..

[FUJIMO]

Jerry Dale designed a hell of a motor, all they had to do was make it bigger, but nope.

...times two. always thought the same.

[Chaz]

Wasn't he the baby daddy of the "Cobra" and "King Cobra" cone head klan .. ?

[FUJIMO]

...not at all. this is the well respected Jerry Hale in reference...

[mistah_max]

^^^ok you need to start talking lol! what the hell is that?!?^^

[bullet123]

V-12?

[FUJIMO]

... Jerry called it the Mercury X-12... two Mercury 2.4's joined via a common crankcase...

[Merc 2.5]

Sweet. Did he get it on a boat?

[delawarerick]

Was that the motor that tore the transom off?