# Wet noodle rod **URL:** \ **Category:** Shift518 Automotive\ **Created:** [March 15, 2010, 5:47pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/wet-noodle-rod/250945 "2010-03-15T17:47:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 55
**Author:** ![Boxersix](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/boxersix/32/6327_2.png) [@Boxersix](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Boxersix)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2010, 7:16am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/wet-noodle-rod/250945/55 "2010-03-22T07:16:15Z")
> [@FS: 4 lug Weld Draglites for Fox Body](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/fs-4-lug-weld-draglites-for-fox-body/30227/3): > > Seems like the rods are a ‘band aid fix’…I mean, if other cars out there are making 200 more WHP with stock rods, it sounds like poor tuning or something is the culprit. > > Would I do the rods while in there? Sure, but I’d also figure out why they bent…I personally don’t think that the fact that this car supposedly made more low end tq, without the assistance of nitrous, was the sole reason the rods bent. Agreed, tuning may have been a slight part of this yes, which is why it’s going back. Never once said that it wasn’t going back. One would be stupid not to factor that in. Detonation very well is a factor in the issue, which we will deal with at EPL. If you thought I was simply putting rods in the motor and sending it back out on it’s merry way as a “band aid” fix then you my friend have some clouded judgment towards me. ☹ Forged rods in these motors are more like some small insurance against punching a hole in a $5,000 case. This thread was simply about the motor, and the motor alone, but if you’d like me to talk about plans for modifying the injection system to multiport distribution or tuning aspects then I will do so by all means 😃 I often get shunned for being “too techy” or “too serious” on the forums so I try not to post too much in a particular thread for everyone to swallow… Well, off to work… --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/wet-noodle-rod/250945)._