Re: RE: Re: Power potential of 360?

From: DEREK BROOKS (DEREK00@prodigy.net)
Date: Fri Oct 01 1999 - 09:57:52 EDT


of corse its custom its a drag motor
-----Original Message-----
From: The Man From Utopia <tmfu@home.com>
To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net <dakota-truck@buffnet.net>
Date: Wednesday, September 29, 1999 8:27 PM
Subject: RE: DML: RE: Re: Power potential of 360?

>> At 03:56 PM 9/28/99 -0400, you wrote:
>> >I have to interject here... Is this 340 water injected??? The
>> reason I ask
>> >is that a 340 punched to 355cid is already dangerously close to the
water
>> >jacket.. Then again I could be wrong...
>>
>> A 3.58" stroke takes the 340 to 367 cid so I assume it's aok. Can't see
>> them giving this information if it wasn't.
>> (July'98 Mopar Muscle).
>
>The message stated "punched". To my understanding (at least here in NJ),
>punching an engine is boring out the block, and putting in over sized
>pistons. Lengthening the stroke poses it's own set of problems too. You'll
>have to have matched pistons and rods for the crank otherwise you'll be
>bending valves so head clearance is a factor. All that stuff would probably
>be custom.
>
>Greg
>95 DSCC v6 5spd
>Rahway NJ
>



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