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  1. Bucketman

    Building a 383 stroker - Enter At Your Own Risk

    OK let me rephrase that. He said they don't need to be equal and opposite.
  2. Bucketman

    Building a 383 stroker - Enter At Your Own Risk

    Go ahead and call out the people putting out bad info. If they get a boo boo lip it's their own fault. I don't feel it's your responsibility, but you might save a newbie from making an expensive mistake. Maybe you'll make them mad enough to stay away, or at least stop putting out bad information.
  3. Bucketman

    Building a 383 stroker - Enter At Your Own Risk

    Mike, Sorry if I broke the rules. I didn't realize how many times I mentioned the place I bought my rotating assembly. My bad! I pretty much am the newby looking for advice, and now I don't know what is good advice and what is bad. I generally go by the book and remember what I heard to add in...
  4. Bucketman

    Building a 383 stroker - Enter At Your Own Risk

    At high RPM load (like racing the 1/4 mile) The block and crankshaft flexes up to 1/16 of an inch. David Vizard, "building a high performance small block Chevy" Just throwing this out there. Studs are better as far as anything I've read. But at first I thought the price was to high, at $200 a...
  5. Bucketman

    Building a 383 stroker - Enter At Your Own Risk

    That is way less than I spent for parts. It's what I should have done. Even Jeggs has a 383 stroker short block for $2095 + shipping. That is with flat top pistons. Only other thing they offer is .200 domed pistons. Both would have been too high of a compression ratio with my aluminum heads. I...
  6. Bucketman

    Building a 383 stroker - Enter At Your Own Risk

    The torque specs are the same for bolts and studs. However the reading on a bolt is less accurate due to twisting friction on the thread being greater than on the nut thread. The clamping force is exactly the same on a stud as a bolt if the are equally torqued. However the clamping force on the...
  7. Bucketman

    Building a 383 stroker - Enter At Your Own Risk

    If that is the case the torque values would be different for studs, because the clamping force needs to be the same for proper gasket compression. So there must be a list of torque specs for studs vs. bolts somewhere. I think I'm going to do a little investigating. I know the friction...
  8. Bucketman

    Building a 383 stroker - Enter At Your Own Risk

    If the torque is the same how can the clamping force change? That doesn't make sense. If there is any distortion on the mains it will show up with the plastiguage. Again ARP is talking about an 8000 RPM engine.
  9. Bucketman

    Building a 383 stroker - Enter At Your Own Risk

    The rods come from Skip White with 12 point ARP bolts installed. I will use my bore gauge to make sure the bore has no "bumps" in the rod and I will have them honed if need be. Just in case. Thanks, Stan
  10. Bucketman

    Building a 383 stroker - Enter At Your Own Risk

    Seems strange that the head gasket wouldn't keep the iron block separated from the aluminum head and prevent the corrosion. Are you sure you didn't miss one of the bolts. LOL, just kidding. I'm not saying these guys are wrong on what they are telling me. I'm sure they are right. What you said...
  11. Bucketman

    Building a 383 stroker - Enter At Your Own Risk

    As I said before I'm not building a race engine. It will have plenty of power for me as I'm building it. I didn't have the mains align bored either. The crank that came out of the block is in good shape as were the bearings. If it had spun a bearing I could see a need to align bore the mains. Or...
  12. Bucketman

    Building a 383 stroker - Enter At Your Own Risk

    Makes sense Indycars, with no oil the friction would eventually start a fire. Like rubbing two sticks together. That's why clean oil is so important. @ Screaming metal, Does nicking the seals cause the engine to smoke on start up? No smoke on start up means no leaky seals to me. :-)
  13. Bucketman

    Building a 383 stroker - Enter At Your Own Risk

    Didn't have them then. Still don't have them. Hope the rings take up the slack. Shouldn't change more than a couple of tenths at the most.
  14. Bucketman

    Building a 383 stroker - Enter At Your Own Risk

    I still have one even after I sell the red one. Bike rich n penny poor.
  15. Bucketman

    Building a 383 stroker - Enter At Your Own Risk

    Thanks, I hope I can build a nice T-bucket with the money from it. It had 10.5:1 compression ratio and it ran good on 91 octane gas. This ones still for sale if you know anybody that wants one
  16. Bucketman

    Building a 383 stroker - Enter At Your Own Risk

    Was a nice two wheeler though.
  17. Bucketman

    Building a 383 stroker - Enter At Your Own Risk

    Yes studs in block are only finger tight. needs only be as deep as three times the diameter of the stud. I've built a few Harley Davidson engines and Harley Davison recommends Loc-tite on all bolts, torqued or not. They are right, the vibration in a Harley engine will loosen teeth. The only...
  18. Bucketman

    Building a 383 stroker - Enter At Your Own Risk

    That's kind of what I was thinking when I bought stud kits for main rod caps, head bolts, and I went ahead and bought a kit with all stainless bolts for the rest of the engine. The studs are supposed to torque more accurately since the nut isn't twisting into the block. Just twisting against the...
  19. Bucketman

    Building a 383 stroker - Enter At Your Own Risk

    @Indycars, Wow that is quite a list. On the block it has "paint inside surfaces". Is that the valley under the intake? I've never painted that area. Some of these I will probably skip, like checking crankshaft for straightness. It better be straight, being brand new, and just balanced. I have...
  20. Bucketman

    Building a 383 stroker - Enter At Your Own Risk

    LOL, didn't know how much plastic came with each gage. Better to have and not need, than to need and not have.

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