360 Stroker Kit, which one to use?

Looking to rebuild a 360 in a LRE for street use, with occasional towing. Would like to have 400 cubes or more with around 400-500 foot pounds torque in the mid-range. Should I go internal or external balance and why? I intend to use stock manifolds and a mild cam, with a dual-plane intake, T-Quad 850, 2500 stall 727A, 3:23 sure-grip. Looking for stroker kit recommendations, and cam recommendations...

Eagle cast 4" crank <$300 & KB stroker hypereutectics would be a reasonable start.

Eagle cast crank would be a terrible start. Get at a minimum a SCAT cast crank, SCAT I beam rods and KB pistons if you are going to use the original open chamber heads or wiseco if you are gonna get a decent head (closed chamber).

The problem with the Eagle crank is the overlap area between the main and rod journals, they grind away all the meat there in an attempt to make them balance internally, long story short, it don't work, they still need mallory to internally balance and the crank is severly weakened, I have seen them break in an almost stock magnum motor, low compression, stock cam, stock intake, stock ex manifolds... took about two weeks.

I would talk to Dan at performance only in florida for a good deal.

External balance is fine in your case, if you chose to go internal balance you should then step up to a steel crank as the extra cost of the mallory required to internally balance a cast crank will offset the cost of the entry leval steel crank like a SCAT or K1. Eagle makes so much junk I will not even buy what little bit of good stuff they make on princaple.

Are you suggesting the EAGLE cast crank is garbage? I'll agree! They look like a 4yr old used an angle grinder to work them. Absolutely no way I'd think of using one.

Call the guys at Hughes Engines and they'll set you up with what you need. I worked with them on the 427 inch small block that I built last year.

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Are you suggesting the EAGLE cast crank is garbage? I'll agree! They look like a 4yr old used an angle grinder to work them. Absolutely no way I'd think of using one.

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A month or two ago I looked at a 408 with a cast Eagle crank, with 160 miles on the motor.

The crank was cracked at the number 8 journal, Eagle told the Dakota owner his automatic tranmission shifts too hard and broke the crank!

Needless to say... Eagle cranks are sh*t in my book.