Rara
Hard-core CEG'er
Let's just simplify this and at least sort of get back on topic. The term for these rods is NOT sintered, it is sinter-forged. Part of the process is sintering, and part of the process is forging, hence the term. Sintered only parts are far, far weaker, and are used for other things in the engine, like valve guides, and valve seats where there is minimal tensile loading. A true sintered only connecting rod would probably break within the first few engine rotations. Just because you don't understand the difference, doesn't mean there isn't one. What you're saying is the equivalent of saying an Austenitic steel isn't really steel because it isn't magnetic. You're the one playing the semantics game here, becuase you can't distinguish the differences between plain sintering, sinter-forging, and plain forging. The bottom line is that regardless of how the pre-forged blank came into being, the Duratec connecting rods still go through a forging operation during thier manufacture. Just because most people like you can't get thier head around the fact that you can forge things other than a blank bar of steel or aluminum doesn't mean there aren't other ways to do it; you go on so much about how smart you are and like to think out of the box, and yet you still can't grasp this? You're still wrong, and none of your semantics games about what people that aren't familiar with the process call it will change that fact.