3.9 Stroker

Dave_J said

Spend $$$$ and get a 292 CI V6. With a lot of porting and big cam and get what, 350 Horsepower. I doubt anyone will get 350 HP without spending enough money to buy a nice 5 year old used car. More dollars than sense.

Where a 3.9 fits, most times a 5.9 will too and dead stock is near 300 HP and much more torque.

You all need to look at a 3.9's cylinder heads ports. Buy a few carbide bits and spend a week on them.

Two of the exhaust ports can clean up nice but the single is so Ba$tered up. So port the worst one first and set it as the benchmark to STOP on the other two.

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Unless it's a Shelby Dak, V-8's are not a drop-in at all until they switched to the body like the red one above, that's why they changed the nose. The stroker crank is probably more than it's worth just to get some more torque, but it would work, if it even needs a crank. I have a '90 TBI 3.9 that was locked-up when I got it for parts, soaked the cyls. with nano-penetrant for a week, then put compressed air in the cyls. & I got it to move. Now I can turn it over with a ratchet. I've seen those systems start dumping fuel all of a sudden, wonder if they're washing off the oil, then rusting up if left sitting too long...