11-25-2016, 12:32 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Little Rock area,
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Cobra Make, Engine: ERA Street Roadster #782 with 459 cu in FE KC engine, toploader, 3.31
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I believe AC is planning to use one of the engine builders close in to ERA back east to install the drivetrain and deliver a turn key car. The comments about the stroker crank parallel what I ran into with Keith Craft. He convinced me that for the cost of finding a nice crank and rods and reconditioning them, he could put a SCAT crank and new Chev rods in for virtually no difference in cost. My engine wound up at 459 cu in and with a fairly mild 230/235 cam made about 535 lb ft of torque. Craft didn't like to start his dyno pulls until about 4000 rpm which was past my torque peak and it was already coming down around 532 lb ft at that speed.
Of course your builder in finding a block may just come up with a nice crank and rods with it by chance.
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