My 4.5 stroke crank barely cleared in the World Iron block...I had only about .140 clearance. I had 2.375 journals, you might with 2.2 rod journals. Tim

1941 Taylorcraft
1968 Charger
1994 Wrangler
1998 Wrangler
2008 Kia Rio
2017 Jetta

I didn't do 4 years and 9 months of Graduate School to be called Mister!