to stroke or not to stroke?

Your example of some wack job wanting a 850 torque motor with only 425 hp is Ludacris!

I don't know, I found it entertaining and a pretty good example to his point that big torque numbers are overrated and that if the guy would have made a bigger HP number (like the engine builder wanted him to) and a smaller torque number he would have been happier. So much so that maybe he wouldn't have sold the car? The car ran like the engine builder told him it would run, but the customer thought he knew more than the engine builder. Maybe there is a lesson in there?

Obviously two engine builders can have different thoughts and use different theories on how to build motors, to me that is the hard part on who to listen to. It's easy to listen to a guy that tells you the same thing you've been reading on the internet and in your favorite magazine, but the guy that doesn't sound like everyone else might be just as good or better but he makes you uncomfortable because he isn't repeating what you've already heard. That doesn't make him wrong.

Nobody is disappointed with their stroker because they added cubic inches.

Yeah that and EVERYONE seems to have one so you're not gonna say I wish I wouldn't have done it. Most likely the car is loud and faster than anything they've ever driven, and it blows the tires off real easy with all the torque so it sounds and feels impressive. Plus it's the en vogue thing to do, and it sounds cool to say I have a 408 ci small block making 550 ft lbs of torque. It's a great conversation piece when the buddies are standing around tossin back a few barley pops and lyin to each other. I almost wonder if it's a nascar thing as well. My cousin is a nascar guy and he is always throwing out torque numbers or wanting to know torque numbers. His first question is how much torque did it make? In comparison I'm more of a drag racing fan and I ask how fast is it?