Oliver Racing Connecting Rods Now Available at Summit Racing

We’ll tell you up front—Don’t buy Oliver Racing connecting rods for a mild street engine build. They’re pretty much overkill for engines that never see the high side of 400 horsepower and RPMs over six grand or so.

But if you’re building a big-horsepower, high RPM street hero or racing engines, step right up and get a set of Oliver rods. Oliver Racing makes its parts based on four principles:

Durability: Oliver uses aircraft-quality, American-made 4340 AQ material that is vacuum furnace degassed 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 treat to a Rockwell hardness of 38-41—a 20% 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 carries 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
These connecting rods are designed for extreme applications like big block turbocharged or supercharged endurance motors and blown alcohol drag cars. The Big Block Max Series rods come with premium ARP 7/16 inch rod bolts.
Applications
• Chevy Mark IV, V, VI big block
• Ford 429-460
• Mopar RB big block

Speedway Series
Speedway Series connecting rods are designed for severe applications where engines are subject to high-RPM endurance racing or high loads over a wide RPM range. That makes them ideal for large cubic inch Late Model dirt cars and forced-induction applications. The I-beam connecting rods come with premium ARP 7/16 inch rod bolts.
Applications
• Chevy Gen 1 small block
• GM LS
• Ford 5.4L Modular V8

Ultra Light Series
Ultra Light Series connecting rods are designed to be used in moderate horsepower engines that run around the 8,000-8,200 RPM range. They are often used in 360 Sprint Cars with spec cylinder heads or pavement Late Models. Ultra Light rods have premium ARP 7/16 inch or 3/8 inch ARP 2000 rod bolts.
Applications
• Chevy Gen 1 small block
• Ford small block and modular V8

Summit Racing also carries Oliver Racing connecting rods for GM LS engines, GM Duramax diesel engines, and even race-prepped Mistubishi four-cylinder and V6 engines. We also carry replacement wrist pins, bushings, and bolts.

SEE OLIVER RACING CONNECTING RODS AT SUMMIT RACING