[AD removed for archives] ------------------------------------------------------------------- Need Emergency Cash? Get Up To $500 Now! No Credit Checks, Easy & Fast Approval Cash in you account Overnight! caadVJ4bOyW3Na/911PaydayAdvance ------------------------------------------------------------------- Don, this sounds really interesting. Please keep us posted. Recently, I saw a set of pistons for a 400 mopar on ebay, they were stock cr and .030 over. $80 starting bid, with no takers. Thats small block chevy piston pricing. :) Is this a welded stroker crank? Or do you not want to give away all the details yet? Doc. Don Dulmage wrote: > > > We are currently playing with a 400 stroked to 426. > 3.53 stroke . > Stock 400 pistons can be used and they will be at or close to .00 deck. > > (We are making ours from 440 cores as this is a full race engine , > roller , alum heads etcetc but the original idea was to take a 400 block > and make an easily duplicated inexpensive engine that would produce good > power. ) > > With a hydraulic cam in the 525 to 533 range for lift (minor flycutting > of piston would be necesary over 520 ) > and duration at .050 around 253 deg and a decent set of iron heads > (2.14/181 with pocket porting and ccing to 80 ccs) and proper springs, > 500 plus hp should be easily attained. > Crank is the biggest expense. We use a 383 steel core and it costs about > $350 Canadian to stroke it to 3.53. > The rest is all normal stuff. > These 400 motors are surprising when given a chance . The 400 may be the > sleeping giant of the mopar camp. > With a stroke not much different from a sb bowtie they will rev all day > without hurting themselves. The huge bores sure help breathing, but the > smaller cubes cut the iron heads a bit of slack. > Don > Author of > Return to Deutschland (True Adventure) > Old Reliable (Mopar) > http://stores.ebay.ca/Don-Dulmage-Enterprises > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > [AD removed for archives] ------------------------------------------------------------------- Get $1000.00 Overnight! Fast and Easy! No Credit Checks! Many Lenders are 100% Paperless! Let The Wizard Find the right Lender for you! caadVJ5bOyW3Nf/911PaydayAdvance ------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Please address private mail -- mail of interest to only one person -- directly to that person. I.e., send parts/car transactions and negotiations as well as other personal messages only to the intended recipient, not to the Clubhouse public address. This practice will protect your privacy, reduce the total volume of mail and fine tune the content signal to Mopar topic. Thanks! '62 to '65 Mopar Clubhouse Discussion Guidelines: http://www.1962to1965mopar.ornocar.org/mletiq.html. bOyW3N.