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Originally Posted by GVFlyer
In practice, cars that have been tracked are generally the ones that need premature rod end bearing replacement. This is because we do not have dry sumps - under sustained centrifugal loads in corners the oil in our engines slosh up against the side of the pan - away from the rod ends.
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While this is a decent theory, I don't believe any correlation has been made between tracking these cars and rod bearing failure.
A number of low mile garage queens have had the issue as well.