oh, oops its an LS :Oo still very awesome, just that i was looking seeing whom else had a GEN 1 350 based 408 stroker like i am building for a 2nd gen daily driver. 1" mahle piston , a 6" rod, 4" stroke, 4.030" bore, even with the 6" rod the rod ratio is 1.5:01. Now in a dart or 400 block with a 4.155" bore this would be a 434 c.i. and the dart tall deck frees up some rod ratio to be had, so if i used a 9.4" fully optioned tall deck Dart block , that gives me .4" to play with for rod lengths and piston thicknesses. for instance a 6.3" rod would then give me still only 1.575:01 , still any angular deflection on cylinders reduced makes me happier and still that is better than a stock 400 sbc having 1.484:01. And a stock 350's rod ratio is 1.638:01, i could make it a 398 or 391 or 388 or 383 oh well poop. i need a dart 4.155" bore 9.4" tall deck for sure. Well i can also use a Dart ford windsor 4.165" bore and 9.5" deck, then shall use the trick flow R heads
What was the final clearance on the bore? I’m doing the exact build. Block getting bored to 4.030. Weisco pistons calls for .004 clearance. My machine shop said that they would bore to 4.031 with .004 clearance. Does that sound right? I’m a newbie with this stuff.
Can you ask your Cerakote guy if he blasted the block? Or did he just clean it and go? I have turned down some engine block jobs just because I didn't feel I would get the surface prepared well.
