Thread: Building a 383

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Hey Guys,
Im going to be helping my brother inlaw build a 383 stroker for his truck. Ive built 350s, 406s, and 454s, But never a stroker. Does anyone know of a good Book on building stroker motors?? Thanks for you help.

Hey, you asked for a book, not actual experience. I looked around and found only:

"Popular Hot Rodding's SMALL-BLOCK CHEVY PERFORMANCE TRENDS, Vol. 1", HPBOOKS available from Amazon.com. This is the only book I found with actual pictures of how to clearance the bottom end of the block on page 146. I am a novice compared to many on this Forum, just a bolt-on guy, so I got cold feet and decided to just rebuild a 350. Another route is to buy a block from PAW which is already clearanced, but depending on where you are the shipping may be expensive as well as the block. As a novice the thing that worried me was the part about maybe having to shave/grind the rod bolts. I think I could handle the grinding to clearance the block but if I had to grind a rod bolt I know I would be in trouble. Sure I would like to have a 383 but I ran into the old economic limitation.

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder

O.K. go read http://www.sporttruck.com/howto/40619/

I am probably getting a 383 shortblock so the boring and all is done for me. The guy I might get mine from got a 400 crank and sized it down to 383 and said he bored the cylinders 60 over. Other thank that I am not sure what else you have to do.

Oh ok then maybe he said something different and I heard him wrong...

Gee, the article cited by Viking does not mention clearencing the block. Maybe Streets can comment on whether some 350s might not need clearencing for a 400 crank or whether that is usual for most all 350 blocks?

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder