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The Ford 302 was designed with off center wrist pins. This (I think) was done to reduce piston slap at the expence of horsepower. It has something to do with the geometry of the bore, piston, con rod, and crank. In fact, a little trick to gain power is to put all the pistons in backwords (left bank pistons on the right etc..). The result is the engine will act like it has a longer con rod and provide more leverage on the power stroke but the engine will knock. I read about this ( CAR CRAFT ??HOT ROD ??)when I was building my engine 2 years ago but decided I couldn't put up with the noise. The net result was something like 400+ hp at a cost of $1100. Please don't anyone crucify me on this, I'm just trying to relate something I read some time ago.
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