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Connecting rod act as an intermediate link between piston and crank. The push and pull from the piston pin to crank pin is carried out by connecting rod which results in the change of motion of the reciprocating piston to rotary motion of the crank. The work focus on experimental investigation of connecting rod for Pulsar 220 with development in existing design. In this work the attempt is to modify the existing design of connecting rod by satisfying the desired design and application constraint. The parameter of existing connecting rod like von misses stress, shear stress, total deformation is obtained from ANSYS software. In addition this work aims to carry out the test on UTM to find deflection and stress by satisfying the desired constraint. The hardness is determined along with the chemical composition of different elements. Modification of existing connecting rod is carried out. Different geometries are verified & optimum geometry is selected which is tested experimentally & compare with existing connecting rod. In case of buckling analysis, the buckling load factor obtained for optimized connecting rod from buckling mode and critical buckling load is calculated. Results obtained from experimental & FEA analysis are validated.