416 stroker ???

Thrasher, Thanks, somebody read that part at least...

340, have fun with your engines. I stand behind mine, and poor choices can mean me paying to completely re-do someone else's engine explosion. That's the difference beyond cost of work done. An example, the 422 I'm doing now had a crack no-one found prior to complete machining. Well, honestly. I didnt find. So I paid out of pocket for the block (one of my spares), and the partial assembly, and the sonic tesing and magging of this new one and the complete machining of it. When you drop $1600 on some stranger's engine, come and tell me my choices are not valid. And I challenge any pro shop to stand behind things like I do. In terms of me and you, no harm, no foul. just two different takes on things.

Joe, I have a Scat 4" arm for the 340 block new in the box. Whatever you buy, if the box don't say "dragonslayer", make sure the shop measures every journal. Out of 5 mains and 8 rods, I have 4 perfect mains, #5 had .0003 taper (acceptable for this engine) and 4 perfect rods, 4 have .0003-.0005 taper. that .0005 id just barely acceptable. If this was destined for a race engine, I'd have the crank turned to fix that. Callies' are always perfect.