[A Snake]

mr bruce, you be right. There is absolutely no point in it....unless, just for the heck of it, you want to make more HP per cubic inch than you can any other way, with a normally aspirated engine.

I may get slapped for this, but I have yet to hear of a normally aspirated, stroked, bigblock making 2.2hp per cube on gasoline.....even racing gas.

It's in the heads. They will only flow so much air. That's why the Boss 302 made more Hp/cube than a Boss 351 with essentially the same heads.

There's also more to do with the physics of an air/fuel mixture in motion that I'm not smart enough to remember the formula for, as well as the formula for square inches of piston top to actual stroke in figuring air flow and cam dynamics.

In short it ain't a bad thing any more than stroking an engine for use in one of these Cobras.

Want quick revs and high HP too, destroke it. Want enough torque to pull a freight train, stroke it. Just wanna have fun, leave it alone.