Understanding West Bend Rods

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steve welte
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Understanding West Bend Rods

Post by steve welte » Sat Mar 04, 2017 9:32 pm

This is the first of my Video's on helping to understand the West bend rods for racing use.
https://youtu.be/XOo4wUPGGwk We have been racing West Bend 820s and US Motor Power 820s for a while now. We thought it would be a good time while building a couple of 820s to share some what we do in building these engines.


West Bend Connecting Rods - Part 1
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REAR
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Re: Understanding West Bend Rods

Post by REAR » Mon Mar 06, 2017 8:26 am

Steve,

Thanks for sharing, were always looking for ways to keep America's karting past on the track.

R.E.A.R.

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Re: Understanding West Bend Rods

Post by ted johnson » Mon Mar 06, 2017 9:57 am

Steve's videos are very well done and helpful, especially for the newbies. We more seasoned karters can still learn, and the vids are entertaining as well! Ted

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Re: Understanding West Bend Rods

Post by Bob Cornwell » Wed Mar 08, 2017 8:35 pm

I believe the early Copperheads and Vintage 820's weren't modded like this but are now standard

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Re: Understanding West Bend Rods

Post by steve welte » Thu Mar 09, 2017 11:19 pm

For some reason people seem to think the rod that is shown as being the good one is some special race only part. It is the stock factory rod of today in all the USMP engines. In the days of old when People would do all the mods (they did these same engine porting mods in the 60's as are done today), they just splattered engines all over the place from broken rods. Go get another engine and mod it and run it until it splattered itself. You have the option of the good rod today. Anyone that wants to run the old style rod can just do so but you better hope your not making mods to your engine. Lets face it. A bone stock 820 is slow as a toad. All the more reason to ask for more power.

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Re: Understanding West Bend Rods

Post by Bob Cornwell » Thu Mar 09, 2017 11:48 pm

steve welte wrote:For some reason people seem to think the rod that is shown as being the good one is some special race only part. It is the stock factory rod of today in all the USMP engines. In the days of old when People would do all the mods (they did these same engine porting mods in the 60's as are done today), they just splattered engines all over the place from broken rods. Go get another engine and mod it and run it until it splattered itself. You have the option of the good rod today. Anyone that wants to run the old style rod can just do so but you better hope your not making mods to your engine. Lets face it. A bone stock 820 is slow as a toad. All the more reason to ask for more power.
Thanks Steve yes your dead right even the latest rod hates being flogged too hard I know I had one crap itself but you learn from your mistakes after all who needed all those revs the US820 has bags of torque and that will win

P.S Thanks for the video's their eye opening

McBob

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