[chuckbrandt]

Why do I need a 390 crank? Probably a longer story than you want but here goes.

The cobra budget is getting a little tight, while I have the parts for a 427 so I don't have the funds just yet to have it assembled professionally.

Coincidentily I needed to rebuild a 352 for my '66 pickup. So I thought I would rebuild the 352 and use it temporarily in the cobra. In researching parts for the 352 I discovered you can't buy decent pistons for it anymore unless you are happy with only 8:1 compression. So I am going to bore it out to make it a 390 and I need rods and crank to do that.

I'd prefer to find a standard crank and have it ground locally, I just thought one of the guys around here might have one.

I expect around 375HP out of this motor, it'll have 9.75:1 compression, mildly reworked C4AE-G heads with CJ size valves, Performer RPM intake, crane dual pattern 272 cam, probably 750 holley.

CDB