With that compression you'll need aluminum heads and a decent sized cam to knock down the DCR for pump fuel. But if you're only making a few beer runs race fuel isn't a big deal...
.............I have had 440 cast cranks offset ground .060 on the rods. U gain a little extra stroke as well as a point of compression..........kim.....
Ya think? Cummins cranks are forged in China nowadays.....Id run it. Strokers dont turn alot of RPM's and if its in fact forged (yup, shot peening gives it the cast look) , Id think it would be plenty strong. "... the cranks are nitrated using a plasma gas nitrating process. This nitrating process penetrates approximately .014" deep into the steel, and raises the surface hardness of the cranks to a MINIMUM Rockwell hardness of 52-60 on the C scale..." That means the depth of the hardening is deeper than an initial .010 journal cut so you should be good to go. BTW you can weld up a forged crank too. Had a nasty .030 cut 340 forged crank spin a rod, crank shop welded journal up and recut it, could not tell it was even touched. The guy said it was a very good OEM crank.also check out the quality of the origin of that crank. some say 440 source stuff comes from China....