Thread: hmmm....

NO cookie cutter, big bore, setup plz
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Go get 'em Strat. Gotta keep an eye on this build, it's gonna be a wild one. A lot of us VE ol' schoolers have been waiting a long time for this, the VE revival. It's here in a big way and then some. 300whp NA VEs will lurk on the forums and in the streets real soon.

Couple of curve balls have come my way. Monday when were back in the shop and imma make some calls. Regardless ill be back in the right direction shortly.

Thanks for support guys !

Stratton.

a stroker, with custom (shortened) rods, maybe

Some one with the knowledge please lay it down here.

Better to go with a stock pin hight piston and custom rod or custom piston stock rod ?

Stratton.

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When you say "better" are you referring to costs or performance?

I think from a cost perspective custom pistons are cheaper since they're only a few dollars more than off the shelf pistons (pistons - which you would have bought anyways)

From a performance perspective I'm not sure. You know the whole rod-ratio argument and all that.

The shorter the rods the worse your r/s ratio will be and the higher your piston speeds will be. Idealy you would like to keep your r/s ratio where its at and add stroke, this would mean you would have to increase rod lenght. There is a lot out there about what is safe for piston speeds but when it comes to drag engines they get pretty extreme.

You will be better off with using the std lenght sr20 rod and custom piston. Although you could go even better and raise the pin height even further and run longer then 2.0 rods. This will lower your piston speeds and allow a higher safge rev limit.

There are pros and cons either way.. id say just run the std 2.0 rod and custom pin height its easy and although ur ending up w a worse r/s ratio you won't need to rev the big motor that high anyways..

Do some reading there's a lot of good info around on the net

Thank you for the quick run down cory.

Stratton.

And not only all that but pistons over 90mm will be custom anyway so it wouldn't cost u any more to have the pin height altered