Crank is shot, do I stroke it or not?
He ask the whole world including us on a open forum. But for the sake of good discussion, id build the stroker version if it actually only cost me 850.00 more total.
Oh no no...what Brian meant was that he [Brian] didn't push the stroker idea on me. I actually brought it up to him initially. That's what Brian was referring to. I had some suspicions that the crank had issues, so I said I would entertain the idea of stroking the engine.
I wanted opinions on building an engine with the parts I already had on-hand, and hopefully learn from other people's experience on which route they would take. People here may have have already been in my shoes and taken the plunge, and have either regretted their decision or been happy with their decision.
That's pretty much why I posed the question.
The way I see it, it's like this. I kind of built an analogy in my head. Here it goes:
I already have a set of ingredients in the pantry to make two types of dishes. Using the same ingredients (i.e. my parts) I can make a chicken dish or a beef dish. I'm just picking which dish to make. Yeah...but then you get the guys going "Forget beef or chicken, go with Lobster! That's what you need." LOL Yeah, it's a crummy analogy but that's how I see it.
I just got an estimate this morning for the body and paint, so I'm going to start crunching some numbers.
I am kind of leaning towards the stroker though. As a few pointed out... heads, cam, headers can all be upgraded later. Maybe a year from now. I can always shove the 8 1/4" under the car while I slowly save to build up the 8 3/4" and maybe find some 2.94 gears or something. Crunching the numbers on that gear showed to be pretty good for the highway an decent for the street with a stroker. It should put me in the right RPM range for divability.
One thing not mentioned that I have no experience with is the fuel economy. I've read some guys getting up to 16 to 20 MPG on a well built 360. I wonder what a stroker with these parts would do. Of course, that all depends on vehicle weight, tires, gearing and tuning too. How many tanks of gas to Vegas from L.A.? Stuff like that crosses my mind.
Ok, back to crunching numbers.
