Hi, I've just built the top end of my engine and all is good... I've just taken her out for heat cycle for the head gasket to seal and settle so to speak. I only did 30 miles of driving and now have rod knock unfortunately!! It was expected as the car has been sat for 2 years with myself doing what I could and should of done if I had the time but as always life gets in the way.i think I've caught it in time because it wasn't knocking before I took her out for a drive.. My question is would it be better for me to install standard big end bearings or aftermarket race bearings for piece of mind maybe?? The car is just for normal use and sometimes will have a hard drive as we all like to do. Thanks in advance.

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C. Hughes

probably just a sticky tappet, had this recently on a gti180 engine, initial startup on a replacement engine was fine then it started tapping bizarrely.

knocked it off to check everything, mate decided to italian tune up it and its been fine since

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