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I haven't heard much about the Scat rods, so I'd stay away from the them. Eagle rods are a good choice for you. I run a TD06 20G and went with Wiseco pistons but kept the stock big rods, all ARP hardware. I didn't want JE pistons simply because of the piston slap associated with them. The piston-to-wall clearance needs to be greater for the JEs versus other forged pistons because they expand more than the others after warmed up, so at initial start-up until they warm up they "slap" the cylinder walls. Ross are excellent pistons and a lot of DSMers use them. They must have come down in price, I remember them being closer to $600.