[Ant]

Hal,

I find your posts interesting, and as I have just got through the massive saga of deciding on which wheels, now have two sets of Trigos etc on the water, so I can now concentrate on the stroker engine decision.
I am not convinced that a 347 is the way to go for road and track due to the need to rev it around 7000+rpms and have potential valve train problems, so am thinking now more on 393 with an alloy Dart block so I can keep the weight similar to a light small block and get an easy 500+bhp, I read that 393 strokers can have big end bolt issues with high revs.

I am interested to know what revs you have been using with your stroker?

It would be a shame to think hey I need more grunt, a 347 may be nicer on the track for a better balanced car, but its going to be hard to get 500hp on pumpgas out of one! I am used to cars with well in excess of 500bhp but more BB stuff, some years ago I ran a circuit car with a F5000 302 Chev it had all the gear 6" Carillos etc but the valve train was the weak point, spinning around 8000rpm back then the valve gear did the let go, I have been told the quality of these components has improved a lot!