The ARP rod bolts arrived today. As you can see from the picture below they are the same length and from what I can tell without breaking the packaging (I may not be able to return them if I open them?) the same diameter but I have some newbie questions:
The original rod bolts have a lobe near the head of the bolt while the ARP's do not, should I be worried about that?
The ARP's have their own 12 point nuts but the skirt of the nut looks very wide?
There seems to be a huge debate on the use of thread locker on the rod bolts?
I should buy a stretch gauge and measure the stretch over the torque?
Cheers!
-Kav.