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Old 09-27-2007, 10:43 PM
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Originally Posted by Stan Weiss View Post
The trend in drag racing has been to shorter rod. Way back the hot setup was a 4" bore 3" stoke 5.7" rod 302 CI 1.9 R/S. Small block Pro Stocker 4.06" bore 3.25" stoke 6.0" rod 337 CI 1.846 R/S. Small block Pro Stock Truck 4.19" bore 3.245" stoke 5.58" rod 357 CI 1.722 R/S. Each step along the RPM's went up and head flow has gone way up.
Great info. This is the stuff I was talking about. I bet the dyno didn't show any or very small but the on track showed bigger results.
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