School me, 3.79 strokers

rumblefish360 said

FWIW, the 4.00 are stroker would be easier and cheaper being more popular. MoPar also used to have a pretty good verity of stroker cranks. A popular trio is/was the NASCAR 3.5 area cranks.

IIRC, I could be wrong here, but *I Think* they were available for the 340 & 360 journals. These 1043 forged cranks could be a available at a reasonable price BUT pistons may end up being expensive and custom. Also, IIRC, there 8 bolt flanged.

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I only asked asked because I found the pistons, plus while looking at cranks, I noticed that Molner makes a 3.79 crank. Both the piston and crank are to Chevy spec, so I assumed that is why they started making them that way from the beginning. I know of a local machine shop used to do Ford stroker engines using a mopar rods back when I was racing in the 90's. Like it has been mentioned, there was quite a bit of experimentation back then. As far as doing a stroker for myself, I would just go ahead and do the 4.00 crank based stroker. Like you said, the parts are off the self, and far less money to do.