Mild 383 build

Bewy said
273,
If your BS was correct, everybody would be building engines with 7" pistons & 2"stroke. Oh, the free hp because of the large piston area!!!!

Why would that be ? My position was that torque is gonna be about the same for a given displacement no matter what the bore to stroke ratio one doesn't really have an upper hand over the other.

Bewy said
The rubbish you posted in post #78, you posted a few weeks back. I thought I will let it go. But then you repeated it....
One more try for the dumb: you hit a two inch nail into a piece of wood with one hammer blow. The hammer blow [ force ] represents the force from the burning mixture. Now get a piece of steel rod, about 5/16 " thick [ old p'rod ] & grind a point on one end [ like a nail ]. Using the same force on the hammer, hit it. It does NOT go into the wood as deep as the thinner nail even though the same force was used because the force was spread over a greater area.

I don't think this the best analogy but it will do. Since even it shows your wrong.

The 5/16 rod (piston) doesn't have to go into the wood as far cause for the same size displacement with a larger piston (5/16 rod) is always gonna be pared with a shorter stroke (doesn't go into the wood as far) than a smaller bore with a longer stroke aka thinner nail deeper in the wood (longer stroke).