Kyrasis6
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Originally posted by farside customz
were can i get STROKED & POLLISHED at cheap ?
I could answer that but I think your talking about your truck.....
There are about 3 ways I know to stroke an engine and all of them will probably cost atleast $1200 on the cheap end for machining and parts. I bet atleast 1 of those two ways 90% of the shops in the U.S. don't know about and the other they won't do, and the last isn't worth the money because your talking about a few thousanths of extra stroke.
The F2 block does have a high nickle content probably because of manufacturing problems from what Russ said above. I think because of that it is actually very stout for its capabilities. I don't think I've ever heard of block failure due to design or over powering the engine. Actually the only one I've seen damaged beyond repair was the engine I pulled out of my truck when I baught it which dropped a rod bolt (and had 2 rod caps mixed up and the other 2 installed backwards and the main bearings where not cleaned before being installed).
There are plenty of much cheaper modifications that can be made to the engine block and internal assembly which would dramatically help it. Many of the processes would need to be done on a rebuild anyways you would just have to tell the machine shop what you want.
As for porting and polishing the only thing I would have done is the bowls blended and run an 80 grit flapper wheel through the ports and intake runners. Anything else would require a flowbench. I took a scrap head and performed a different port job on each port based on info a cylinder head specialist gave me who had 15 years worth of experience in drag racing and NASCAR and all 4 of them caused an estimated 10% loss in performance accross the full rpm band. It would take a good engine shop some time on a flowbench to find some good power out of some good port work.