Quote Originally Posted by 34_40 View Post
Thanks Dave! No sweat on the other "details" as the engine shop "should" / "better" have that covered. I was just looking on-line at distributors and it popped into my head that I may need to change the drive gear.

I had one of those "moments of vindication" yesterday.. I was second guessing myself in the decision to build a stroker since this motor was already all new. Well I went to the shop to check on progress yesterday and the machinest smiles at me and says "hey, ya gotta see this!" He shows me the conn.rods and 3 or 4 of them have a huge circular gouge in the bearing maybe 50 or 60 thous. deep! I looked at him and said what the _ _ _ _!... He shows me the crank and some of the journals have dents / burrs in them! We surmise that the kid that "overhauled" / assembled this motor had let the conn rod bolts ding up the journal and never cleaned up / polished those birdies! We also complained to each other as the shop that did the overbore laft a crappy finish and sadly the cylinders aren't straight! Not real terrible but, it should still be the same measurement top to bottom!

So when I left I felt REALLY GOOD that I made the right decision! Or maybe I got lucky for a change!

O U C H !!!

But with that stroker kit - those parts are now 'surplus'/scrap - luckily for you!!!!
But - remember ARP fasteners.