400/450 stroker....Cheap parts, lotta work.
I’m not questioning your build in the least. I’ve just been advised not to push the compression envelope in a towing motor. So I have second guessed my build, also taking into account that the KB’s aren’t the toughest piston out there.
Oh I didn't feel you were being critical of my build at all and took no offense what-so-ever. Be at peace.
KB pistons may not be the toughest ones out there but even their website says you can run, uh, what, a 200 shot(?) of nitrous? We're not going the nitrous route! We'll run the proper ring gaps and use care with timing as we wring this engine out.
I just didn't know what 'tight' was to you. You're asking about compression. My 10.2:1, will it run in a truck application?
Don't know. I don't design engines for other people anymore. I just report on what I'm building for myself and how it turns out. Never having run this type of build before I'm taking no one's word on what it is correct or incorrect and we're just going to see what happens.
How much detonation resistance under load will this build have? I don't know. But the
"Shadow Knows", er, dyno knows.
I've
never built an engine for quench or ever
cared about quench. We may have to pull the engine down while on the dyno and open the combustion chambers up around the valves to lower compression. Maybe install a thicker head gasket than the .039" one planned, which will lower the compression and cause less squish or quench or whatever the big boys call it.
Don't care what anyone says anymore because I was once told I couldn't make over 600 HP on pump gas with my Edelbrock RPM heads.......until the day we made 723 HP and 787 HP a month after that.
My boy and I are just having fun and we'll report on what we find out.
