The heart of our engine is a 69.5mm stroked and counterweighted crank. The crank features an 8-dowel connection to the flywheel and VW-sized main and rod journals. We will use H-beam rods bv AA Performance. Since the stroke is a little longer than stock and the big end of the rods a little bigger, we will need a trial assembly or two.
Once the rods were assembled onto the crankshaft, it was dropped into the case for a trial fitting. We found
