[DeTomaso] 408 Stroker Life Expectancy

[Donny Williams]

Thats was a great stated insight Jack!  Loved it!

"And having giant rear tires twitch sideways at 120 mph after a solid 
3rd-to-4th shift focusses one's attention wonderfully well on driving but 
over-tightens the sphincter-muscle on most of us!"

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <JDeRyke at aol.com>
To: <artstephens at charter.net>; <detomaso at realbig.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2007 11:44 AM
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] 408 Stroker Life Expectancy


> In a message dated 6/26/07 2:12:23 PM, artstephens at charter.net writes:
>
> << Yeah,  I sure would like to get one of those aluminum Cleveland blocks
> someday! >>
>
> It really depends on what you intend to do with the car. Note that every
> single one of the 'big-power' engines at this year's 'Vegas Fun Rally 
> track days
> had oil temp troubles- a few even with high-buck oil-to-water heat 
> exchangers
> installed. So obviously not all the problems with such machines have been 
> fully
> sorted out. Virtually none of the big motor cars were street driven 
> either,
> which is arguably most of the fun for us.
> One engine, an all-aluminum Trans-Am stroker motor that was pro-built at a
> cost of $30,000' and 'detuned' for the street with 1.52:1 roller rockers & 
> what
> the builders call a 'wimp cam', only puts out 627bhp. It's currently for 
> sale
> after less than 500 miles.
> Another option for about half that cost is a Byars Bros big-block 
> conversion
> that can be built to over 650 bhp pretty easily and will weigh slightly 
> less
> than an all-iron Cleveland. One running at 'Vegas was 545 cubic inches &
> heaven-knows-how-much torque.
> But in all these monster-engines, you really need to re-gear the ZF 
> (budget
> another $3000) so you don't scare yourself every time the ignition is 
> turned
> on. With a stock-geared ZF in the big blocks particularly, 1st & 2nd 
> become
> useless. And having giant rear tires twitch sideways at 120 mph after a 
> solid
> 3rd-to-4th shift focusses one's attention wonderfully well on driving but
> over-tightens the sphincter-muscle on most of us! This may be most of the 
> reason I
> haven't done a stroker myself- street driving is just so much fun in a 
> Pantera!.
> My 2¢- J DeRyke<BR><BR><BR>**************************************<BR> See
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