94TA25ann

Some of you may have read my other post, which I said I had spun a rod bearing. I'm meeting with a guy that I was reffered to that now works at the "Mustang Ranch", which is a high performance shop for Fords. The guy that is now doing their machining and engine building is supposed to be a GM master. Anyways, I'm meeting with him this week to discuss cost and everything else.

I want to know what is a good strong 383 shortblock setup that will handle a LE2 head and cam package and be able to rev high(on a budget). Should I get forged or not (planning on running NOS few times at most a year), and what brands for rods, bearings, pistons, crank, oil pump, rings.

Also is there anything speacial that needs to be done to the LT1 oppossed to a GEN 1 SBC block when building a 383 stroker. Reason why I ask is because I read in another post stating that the machine shop that built another member's 383 didn't do certain things that need to be done to LT1's when building them.

Thanks for the help guys!

94TA25ann

I know there is some people that can help me.

Black_95Formula

Do a search there is plenty of info on this. BTW building a high-revving strocker and budget should not be in the same sentence

Check out my sig for parts that I used on my project. Good luck.

Dave '97 Z28 M6

"I'd like to build a high-revving stroker and I have an unlimited budget."

See... you can use them together in a sentence!

Seriously, though, forged is the way to go if you wanna beat on it and use da nawwwssss.

Check out this thread.

Black_95Formula

LOLZ! However, I never said that you can't use them in the same sentence; just that you should not.

SoloExceptional

I know there are Forged 383 stroker kits available, and if you're going to spray then I would recommend forged, but I've found a lot of them use a 9.5:1 compression piston, and it's my understanding that higher compression is better for the juice and a lot of people seem to like running like 11.5:1 anyway just for added horse power. I believe the brands mostly come down to preference, because while some people claim some work better than others, and sometimes they do. In the end most of them do just the same thing just sometimes you pay for the name. I know Eagle is pretty big name as far as cranks and rods are concerned, I know Cola makes a good crank too.

94TA25ann

Thanks, that thread helped me out a lot. I'm just anxious to get my car back on the road, but I'm just going to save some more and get what I really want;
ALL FORGED!

blown383

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