351????

[MiracleMax]

Originally posted by DirtKing:
Just to correct some 411....
Motors with better rod ratios WILL make more torque due to more time spent at TDC and less friction losses to the piston/cylinder wall angle. They WILL handle higher compression better than the low ratio motor(302 and most strokers)

Yes, they can especially with slow burning racing fuels which can take advantage of the dwell time a long rod motor spends at TDC. However a stroker motor with what seems to be considered a less than Ideal R/S ratio is more comfortable on street or pump gas since this type of fuel burns more rapidly than race fuel. Once you've extracted whatever heat is available from the fuel mixture and it has began to cool down there's no advantage to maintaining the piston's dwell time. As for high compression tolerability with pump gas in a dynamic state I don't see how a long rod engine would reduce the tendancy to knock or detonate. Give me a solid argument in this paticular case and I'll relent . All of this is academic I suppose since just about any engine can be made to perform sucessfully . I can clearly see the advantage of using a 351 as a racing engine, it has every advantage to using it, but for the street (at least to me) a 302 based stroker seems more attractive.