Destroked Small Block?

harrisonm said

I had a friend who had a 69 Z-28. It was a great car, it was pretty fast, it sounded good, and it revved up nice and high. At 302 cubic inches, I believe it was just a destroked 327. I realize that people build stroker engines for more cubes, torque and HP. I was just wondering if there was anybody out there destroking Mopar engines. Other than higher revving (if that is, in fact the case), would there be a reason to?

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Z28 engines were "nothing special." They were a bunch of parts Chevy threw together. "Us kids" used to bore a 283 and call it a 301. (It is something like 301.7) Chevy did that and called it a 302

327 block= 4.00 bore, 283 crank gives you the stroke, and the infamous "double hump" "camel hump" heads, plus a hot cam, hi rise, etc.

Chev played the same game with the 307....283 bore block, and 327? stroke crank.