So many of you have followed my posts on a 600 horsepower W2 headed 360 block I am in the process of speccing out to build. The engine will be going in the pictured 1983 Dodge D150 longbed that weighs 3,700 pounds and will be backed by a Liberty proshifted A833 4 speed transmission along with a properly built 8 3/4 rearend with unknown gears at the moment (I'm assuming 4.56, 4.89 or maybe even 5.13 gears) and my original plan, and still may be, was to keep the stock stroke of 3.58 inches along with 12:1 TRW forged domed pistons and rev it up to 7,000 rpm with a properly designed and ground solid roller cam from Racer Brown. Now for the twist in my thoughts from the original idea...... I am currently tossing around the thought of using the stock stroke 3.58 inch 12:1 domed pistons and putting them on a 3.79 inch stroke crank to do a HUGE bump in compression.... talking like north of 14:1 maybe even 15:1 compression. Now I'm tossing this idea around for 3 reasons. Slightly longer stroke to help produce torque faster for the 3,700 pounds it's gotta shove off the starting line, to help with that compression all along with allowing it to still rev to 7,000 with the mild length stroke addition and because with a .030 overbore it bumps it up to 386 CI which displacement always is a plus. I was in talks with one of my very very knowledgeable friends that has an old crank from the 80s that was welded and offset ground to 3.700 inch stroke to bring low compression factory pistons up to zero deck and we both talked for a while on this, he was interested in my idea which got me EVEN more intrigued to do it because if that intrigues him them I've made a break through LOL. Now I want your thoughts. Give me any and all of your feedback. Time for us big boys to talk the talk
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