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echo: oldcars
to: ROY WITT
from: JACK SCHWENDENER
date: 1997-08-15 07:51:00
subject: 396

RW> JS> The destroked 327s were used in a nitro class (unblown). For street
RW> JS> use, nobody ever went that route unless they happened to have the
RW> JS> parts sitting around (why give up the inches ... ?)
RW>Some believe in R's...
When you are valve spring limited (as we were in those days) and nobody
is checking inches on the street, I'll take all I can get ....    :-)
RW> JS> few guys running welded stroker 400 ince 327 (now that was tight
RW>Had one in my 67 Chevelle with 3 3/4" stroke...bored to 388...rod went
RW>through the block when the harmonic balancer came loose and fell of the
RW>shaft...
Bad day at black rock ....
Jackson
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