dirty white boy
50 yr old Juvenal delinquent
when using a 360 crank in a stroker 318 build, what best cheapest way to balance it all out? 318 car, converter and all what im working with. would it be best to use a LA crank or a magnum?
thanks, would you happen to have a part number on that flex plate?cheapest.....360 weighted balancer and B&M weighted flexplate for 360......
yeah,...no problem to turn them down, just more money!You realise that the "Main Journals are LARGER on a 360. compared to a 318/340.....Right?
10236 LA 360 external balance flex plate.thanks, would you happen to have a part number on that flex plate?
thanks, would you happen to have a part number on that flex plate?
yeah believe your right... might as well go big then...By the time you do that, you can buy a new crank.
318 piston and rods with a 360 crank, cut the mains down to fit like we know, then how about cutting the counter weights .the rest weighs less than 360By the time you do that, you can buy a new crank.
You'll also be turning down the counter weights or machining the piston skirts. The 318 piston won't clear the counter weights of the crank. Do they make a piston for this application?
If that is the case, what is wrong with a 360 to start with? There are plenty of them around, perhaps moreso than 318sIt's easier to understand the difference when someone like @Oldmanmopar explains it so it makes sense! The cut required on the 360 mains would require getting it heat treated again, and I forgot that part. I tend to pretty much stick to stock type builds anyway. It's 60 or 80 miles to a drag strip in any direction from my house, and traffic is too congested to mash on anything around here unless you go out and do it at 3 AM. At 62....I'm too dang old to be out prowling around that time of night!
You cut through the hardness of the crank good luck keeping bearings in it. They will stick fast like an Alabama tick when they get heat in them. Buy a crank or pay to get it cut then rehardened and balanced for more than the cost of a new stroker kit.
If that is the case, what is wrong with a 360 to start with? There are plenty of them around, perhaps moreso than 318s