A good friend of mine took his modified STI out drag racing, but ended up loading the wrong map in the Hydra engine management system.  The car is running a GT37/GT40 turbo at 34psi of boost pushing about 590hp to the wheels on C16 fuel.  Unfortunatly the loaded map had much higher ignition advance at the mid boost levels then it should, which resulted in significant rod force right at top dead center.   The result was a distinctive whacking sound on each engine rotation.   As the picture below shows, one of the factory rods took quite a beating and eventually bent.   This is a good demonstration of the strength of the stock EJ257 rods, which are the same as the JDM EJ207 (Spec C) rods.  Ah the joys of racing!