School me, 3.79 strokers

A local machine shop here in CT did a few. He knew I was a MoPar nut and let me watch.

Basically he used Chevy rods and off set ground the cranks and used a piston with the pin bore higher up in the hat. This allowed for a longer stroke but the 360 cranks were cast so they would not last so he stopped building them. He tried to get me to use a ford rod in a /6 to pull the same thing. But I knew the /6 had limited port flow and would not be worth all the work. I was at one show “Papa’s Dodge when it was held at the Farmington Polo grounds and there was a Barracuda -68 if I remember correctly that had this done. Damn thing ran low 10’s in the quarter but sounded like a pop corn machine when he lit off this drag car.

The owner said 500hp from a /6 but I was only like 20 and had no idea if that was true.

Sorry for going off the rails on you. All I can say in the 80’s... there was a lot of experimenting going on. Some worked... a lot did not.