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Engine Specific Info and Questions => IDI Engine => Topic started by: Alcaid on July 18, 2011, 04:18:30 am

Title: Finally, Rosten has made 1.6TD H-beam rods!
Post by: Alcaid on July 18, 2011, 04:18:30 am

Finally, a trusted vendor supplies H-beam rods for our 1.6TD builds at a decent price!

If you're not familiar with Rosten-Performance, check out the TDIClub forums.

(http://rosten-performance.com/images/rods/h_beam_rod_vwaudi_16td.jpg)

 - 136mm center - center
 - 24mm small end with bronze bushing
 - 50.6mm big end
 - 2 piece forged from 40CrNiMo steel
 - comes with ARP 2000 bolts and assembly instructions
 - shoot peened and heat treated
 - weight is 560 gram included bolts, with a tolerance of +- 1gram
 - Designed to use TDI rod bearings which are far better than the 1.6TD
 - Price complete set: 350.00 €

www.rosten-performance.com

I'm in no way affiliated with this vendor, just giving you guys a heads up :)

Title: Re: Finally, Rosten has made 1.6TD H-beam rods!
Post by: MJF on July 18, 2011, 12:25:24 pm

Thanks, good to know 8)

Title: Re: Finally, Rosten has made 1.6TD H-beam rods!
Post by: cyrus #1 on July 18, 2011, 10:41:02 pm

I have been waiting for these to appear. Thanks for posting. Hopefully these won't just be a limited run item.

Title: Re: Finally, Rosten has made 1.6TD H-beam rods!
Post by: truckinwagen on July 19, 2011, 10:40:17 am

had to be after I quit driving a VW...

oh well, good to see that they are being made at last!

-Owen