53 Willys
I agree. I just got lucky. Any stroker should be ckecked for clearance. Never assume anything will fit. I didn't mean to imply that.

Nitrowarrior
Sorry to get your heart rate up.

As I said, I'm not going to argue that the short rods are better. They're not. Stroke to rod length ratio and piston dwell time IS better with longer rods.

However, budget is important to some people and they struggle to get the money to do anything to their cars. The poster asked if a 383 could be built with 400 rods and 350 pistons. Of course you can do it that way.

Chevrolet built who knows how many 400 small blocks. I'm sure the engineers knew about about the advantages of long rods. The fact that short rods even exist means that someone made a good engineering case for them. They could have just raised the pin height in the pistons and used existing rods.

Mike