Summit Racing is now stocking Oliver Racing con-rods but they advise that you don’t buy them for a mild engine build. They are pretty much overkill for engines that never see the high side of 400bhp and RPMs over six grand or so.

However, if you’re building a big-horsepower, high RPM V8 engine, step right up and get a set of Oliver rods, which are based on four principles:

Durability: Oliver uses aircraft-quality, American-made 4340 AQ material that is vacuum-furnace de-gassed and inspected for cleanliness. That means better durability and fatigue resistance.

Strength: Oliver uses a two-stage heat treatment process. The first stage is designed to ‘grow’ the best metal grain structure possible. After machining, the rods get a second heat treatment to a Rockwell hardness of 38-41 – a 20 per cent improvement over its competitors. That means you get a connecting rod with higher tensile and yield strength.

Precision: Oliver’s state-of-the-art machining facility is climate-controlled to within 2° F variance. That means stable material and air temperatures that allow machining to extremely tight tolerances.

Craftsmanship: Oliver has been making connecting rods for over 30-years. Many of its employees have worked at Oliver their entire career, and they use that experience to make the best connecting rods possible.

Summit Racing stock eight types of Oliver Racing connecting rods for all types of racing. Most are I-beam-style rods that feature Oliver’s exclusive ‘Parabolic Beam’ design that reduces beam stress and delivers the highest strength-to-weight ratio of any connecting rod currently made.

Big Block Max Series

Speedway Series

Ultra-Light Series

SEE OLIVER RACING CONNECTING RODS AT SUMMIT RACING ENDS.