The Philosophy of building stroker engines:

0. Increasing the stroke is nearly always the most optimum way to increase engine size, in terms of cubic inches per dollar.

2. One strokes an engine to increase torque. Torque is what we seek for that "planted in the seat" feeling.

3. As we admit we're building the stroker for more torque, we remember Chuck Senatore's words,"Build the biggest shortblock you can afford." This makes sense. Why limit yourself in your effort to increase torque? Why not build the largest shortblock that you can afford, that has acceptable durability?

4. Bloomer recognized that the LA motor has enough room in it for larger stroke, if you decrease size of rod journals. NASCAR engine builders are making 900+ hp from 355 engines running at 9000rpm, for two hours straight, and they're doing it with 1.889 or 1.850" rod journal. So skipping down to a smaller rod journal on a street engine makes sense. The 2.00" early SBC journal isn't very small, really, and there are a million bearings available for it.

5. So if you cannot afford the 4.125 or 4.250 stroke, build what you can afford, probably the 4.000 stroke. Sometimes that extra $400 IS impossible to get. There's always tomorrow!

R.