'86 F150 Major Update/fix-up

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Whitelightning wrote:

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"Steve Barker" <ichasetrains (AT) some (DOT) yahoo.com> wrote in message
Interesting. The 327 and the 350 share the same bore, different
strokes, same piston and the same rod length. We take a 350 block ,
turn a 400 crankshaft mains down to 350 specs, and get a 383, using
ether the standard 5.7 length rod or a 6 inch rod for radical compression
even though
the 400 has a much longer stroke than the 350.. In fact most all the
chevy small blocks used 5.7 rods regardless of stroke. We did have
to watch valve pockets though to avoid interferance.
I am not up on fords. I like the the 289 and the 302 engines. The
351 Cleavland was a favorite as well, but I never really did a lot of
mods on them. Lets face it a 351 4V Cleveland with a 4 speed in a 70
Cougar really didnt need any mods, it was a go like hell off the show
room floor. Same with a 289 K pulled from a Fairlane or Comet and
slammed into an early Falcon., or shoe horned into a Pinto Wagon,
actually a 289/302 into a Pinto was ins some ways easier than the
more common small block into a Vega.
Whitelightning

If you have a different stroke on the 350 and 400 then you surely have
either a different rod or different piston. There's no way you can lengthen
the stroke, stay with the same rod and piston and not have it pop out of the
hole.

--
Steve Barker

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Re: '86 F150 Major Update/fix-up - 05-22-2007 , 01:03 AM