heres a good link to bore x stroke chevy specs:
http://www.mortec.com/borstrok.htm
i agree longer stroke engines are more torque orientated....and short strokes rev faster.
best of both worlds?
i have a dirt track car that i posted a thread about the engine earlier, where i asked if a small journal 327 crank could be used in a 400 block using some sort of spacers, just like they do to build a 383.
i want the large bore of the 400 block for the power of the larger bore and the short stroke of the 327, to get me out of the corners faster. every1 said no go, but it would work if i had a lg journal 327 crank and use same spacers as a 383.
i have a sj 327 and was trying to use parts i already have, but am now looking for a lg j 327 or 307 crank to build this motor and am selling off the parts from the smj 327(some of which are # correct for corvette applications :-) )...it will need custom rods and pistons,(i believe, but may get by with 1 of the 2 being off shelf part) but would be a
monster on the track..as 400 bore would produce the power and the short stroke of the 327 crank would give me the quick rev, i need out of the corners and would keep me below the 360 cid cutoff.
just using longer rods will help produce more tq, w/stroke the same....its the same principal as using a cheater bar on a wrench. the longer the rod, the more leverage the piston has on the crank, producing more tq. with the same stroke. so there are a # of different combos that can be fashioned!
i would like to try a 265 v8 crank in the 400 block, that would be a 3'' stroke with a 4.165 bore (@.040 overbore), use as long of a rod as possible to help tq #'s.
the 632, which has truly monstrous 4.600-inch bores and a lonnngggg 4.750-inch stroke, is a gm lovers wet dream! i've given alot of thought to swapping parts to build specific application motors.
i even have set down and figured out the firing order for a 350 if you could get a 180* crank. that would be when the piston on left bank is firing the piston on opposite bank on same journal would be on exhaust. only thing special, crank of course and the cam, but w/ a simple cam swap and dizzy cap, you could get the v8 to fire 2 cylinders at once, which would be a low rpm motor, but (on paper at least) it would have twice the power by having 2 cylinders firing at same time. possibly good for tractor pulling. i've spent alot of time, speculating different crank and block combos, even with custom cranks as mentioned above. any1 else ever gave much thought to making 2 cylinders fire at same time for a competition and swap cam back to have a regular firing v8? a 180* crank in a 90* block? can and where could you get specially made cranks like this?