Thoughts on a 225 rebuild

cjh said
In the previous post about Conrods....their sole purpose is to turn Linear Motion into Rotary Motion......but....there is a thing called Rod length to Stroke length Ratio....that is what makes a smooth engine, or a torquey engine, or a revvy engine.
We got a 302 Clevo donk here....the US didn't get them....anyway, they had a 3" stroke, and 4" bore like the 351C....but the 302 rods were 6", and the 351 rods were 5.8".
They would use the 6" rods in a 351, and special pistons....made them develop more torque.....apparently.....to do with dwell time at the ends of the strokes.

David Reher says that is a crock... I tend to listen when he talks... He has no reason to disseminate false information; his credibility is at stake, writing for a vehicle like National Dragster, where most of the readership is engine-literate.

And, you're right; turning linear motion into rotary motion is what rods do, BUT they do it by connecting the piston with the crank...if they didn't do that, they would have no function, right?