Nissan 200SX Club - South Africa

Yay, I found the email Eagle sent me regarding the subject. Read below...

Jon,
the best way is to inspect the channel on the side of the H-beam. IF it has a ridge that runs the length of the channel it is either our or a Carillo. Our bolts will also have "EAGLE" or "ESP" on the head of the rod bolt and most (not all) of our rods will have the Eagle logo on the beam of the rod.

Thanks.


----- Original Message -----
From: Jon TD
To: eaglerod@netten.net
Sent: Monday, October 22, 2007 2:56 AM
Subject: Genuine vs Fake

Greetings from South Africa

I am looking into buying a set of Eagle conrods but am worried about all the cheap knockoffs on the market.
How do I tell a genuine Eagle conrod from a fake?
Is there an article somewhere that I read up on?

Thank you for your assistance.

Regards
Jon

They are not eagle rods.

Seeing that standard rods are good for 400HP I don't see the need in changing to crap if one don't need to... Especially if they absolutely claim its fake

There is no way on earth someone can sell R6000 rods for R3000 when Eagle's cost price isn't even R4000.

Yet the only rods I/we could find for the CA was Crower, at nearly R7000+ a set.

I know what mess a rod makes when it fails, I remember my buddy buying a whole new motor because there was bogger-oll he could reuse.

I remember posting something a while back, saying buying cheap for mission critical parts will cost you more in the end.

Yes I have read the ad in SNS and I have been taken on a tour of Ivans premises while he showed me all his stock and explained where it comes from.

If his staff are sayings its Eagle rods then its sounds like someone is lying. The other thing that proves they are not genuine is the fact that they will sell you 1 rod, no reputable rod manufacturer will do that as they are weight matched sets.

Believe it dont believe it.

Genuine SR20 Eagle Rods incl. bolts retail for $359 ex shipping, vat & import duty.

Why risk the motor to save R800? in that case rather save the entire R3k and just shot-peen the OEM rods.

Most of the genuine eagle rods I've seen have a gold-ish shine where the wrist pin goes.

keep the stock rods buy pistons...

but thats what i did???

Nismo....

I checked your garage and It seems you might be using the same type of conrods.

Do you have any feedback about them?

hehehe.

the secrets out!!!

Cool, guess Im buying a set then.
If I like what I see