HELP! I bought a mess?
Hey YR, you are contradicting yourself... :poke:
Usually you are advocating strokers ONLY when used with the best of them very good heads... otherwise the poor engine will fall off a log past 4800rpm dadada... lol
But I like the idea to go stroker with a 318 block... only that the OP will have to sink thousands of $'s into it then... and the better half might not like that. :)
Not a contradiction at all.
He never said he wanted max power.
He never said ET was the ultimate goal.
He never said he wanted the engine to RPM.
He said its for his wife.
He said its a show and cruise car.
So why not? It will be a tire shredder. Always looks good at car shows when you can melt the hoops down to the wheel with ease and the brag you have a "stroker".
And yes, I built a 408 back in 2000-2001 that went over 545 HP but it did it at 5200. That was with fully ported edelbrock heads. And a HR with 240 at .050 so it was really a tractor engine. What a waste. Buy the owner was a internet believer and was told you can't make 500 HP with that combo on pump gas. Don't need a steel crank (I will never understand the love affair with cast cranks...Chevy used them because they are cheap, not because they good...steel cranks are so cheap it's stupid not to use one). The internet world went batshit crazy when he told them I was using Chevy rods and took a brand new crank and turned the Rod throws down to LJ Chevy...a crime against Mopar humanity. They all said the headers were too big, the intake was wrong, the ignition I picked was junk and the general consensus was it was on a happy dyno it might make 475-480.
So, not a contradiction. That 408 would have been much better off with 1. A bunch more cam or 2. No more than a 3.75ish stroke. Again, the Internet engine builders all said the cam I used was too,big for the street, would need to idle at 1200, wouldn't make any "bottom end", one of my most hated and ignorant statements ever made and a host of other things. Yet they were all wrong.
Again, I didn't contradict anything. Consider the end user and application.
