A few more "just wondering" questions about strokers, compression, and power...
08-21-2002, 07:50 PM
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A few more "just wondering" questions about strokers, compression, and power... Just wanted to ask a few quick questions, mostly out of morbid curiosity.
1) Easy question: Keeping everything else equal, including compression, how much horsepower/torque can one expect to gain by changing from the stock 346 rotating assembly to a 383 stroker assembly?
2) Eventually, I want to build a stroker engine with an intercooled supercharger pushing 7-8 lbs (maybe more <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="gr_grin.gif" /> ) of boost. However, it may be "some time" before I can afford the blower and everything that comes with it, so I'd like to build a stroker motor that makes good power NA but can also handle boost well in the future.
So what I want to know is, if I upgrade to a 383 stroker assembly, how far can I lower the compression (in anticipation of future boost) and still have at LEAST as much HP (naturally aspirated) as I had with the stock 346ci 10.1 to 1 compression engine?
<small>[ August 21, 2002, 07:52 PM: Message edited by: squirrels ]</small>
1) Easy question: Keeping everything else equal, including compression, how much horsepower/torque can one expect to gain by changing from the stock 346 rotating assembly to a 383 stroker assembly?
2) Eventually, I want to build a stroker engine with an intercooled supercharger pushing 7-8 lbs (maybe more <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="gr_grin.gif" /> ) of boost. However, it may be "some time" before I can afford the blower and everything that comes with it, so I'd like to build a stroker motor that makes good power NA but can also handle boost well in the future.
So what I want to know is, if I upgrade to a 383 stroker assembly, how far can I lower the compression (in anticipation of future boost) and still have at LEAST as much HP (naturally aspirated) as I had with the stock 346ci 10.1 to 1 compression engine?
<small>[ August 21, 2002, 07:52 PM: Message edited by: squirrels ]</small>
08-23-2002, 06:38 PM
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Re: A few more "just wondering" questions about strokers, compression, and power... TTT...sorry if they're dumb/basic questions. I'm not experienced with this kind of stuff. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="gr_stretch.gif" />