71 XLT 390

[kid]

LOL his start out farther than that but you are right I would do that in a heart beat.

[XLT]

Borderline 500 plus cube stroker

Sounds good. Please explain.

[kid]

The side bolts and extra webbing makes the bottom end hold together with the high stress of a 4.5 to 5.25 inch stroke. So a re-sleeved 360 with that bottom end set correctly to cross bolt mains with 427 sleeves bored at .060 over and 4.5 crank would be 520 cid. A 4.25 stroke would be 491 and a 5 inch stroke makes 578.2 cid. Now with the 427 sleeves at .080 over you get 4.23+.08 for 4.31 / 2 = 2.155 squared * pi for piston area 14.590 sq in * 4.75 stroke * 8 cylinders equals 554.4 cid. Last block on the 427 re-sleeve at .030 would make a 4.26 bore and with the max crank stroke the block could handle of 5.25 you get 598.6 cid.

The reason I say borderline is engines not engineered that large don't last very long in racing. They still break from the crank stressing the block at high RPM and severe piston to side wall flex.

In this pic the red line from blue dot is an example of large stroke say 5.25. It hits the sidewall at a high angle and overloads the sidewalls and the piston skirts fairly easily. The green dot and yellow line is what happens at a 428s stroke a lot less sidewall loading making the engine last longer. I plan on taking my 360 out to 376 by boring it out and destroking it to keep the torque and gaining cid plus a super low friction crank setup because of low sidewall loading.

[XLT]

About the 5th picture down on this page shows the webbing pretty well.

http://www.428cobrajet.com/id-block.html

DuckRyder, I am unable to get images from . I have even done a search on Google. No images.

[DuckRyder]

About the 5th picture down on this page shows the webbing pretty well.

http://www.428cobrajet.com/id-block.html

DuckRyder, I am unable to get images from . I have even done a search on Google. No images.

Try these, they are direct links to the pictures.

http://www.428cobrajet.com/images/fe-normal-web.jpg

http://www.428cobrajet.com/images/fe-triple-web.jpg

HTH

[XLT]

About the 5th picture down on this page shows the webbing pretty well.

http://www.428cobrajet.com/id-block.html

DuckRyder, I am unable to get images from . I have even done a search on Google. No images.

Try these, they are direct links to the pictures.

http://www.428cobrajet.com/images/fe-normal-web.jpg

http://www.428cobrajet.com/images/fe-triple-web.jpg

HTH

No images... too.

[DuckRyder]

I'm about out of ideas for you to see them then, unless I can make them show here:

[edit: nope that didn't work.]

Go to:

http://www.428cobrajet.com/

Under: Engine Information Resources
Click: Component Identification
Then Click: Block

That should get you to the original page where the images are.

Perhaps they have it set up so that you have to go in the front door.

If that doesn't work

[kid]

About the 5th picture down on this page shows the webbing pretty well.

http://www.428cobrajet.com/id-block.html

DuckRyder, I am unable to get images from . I have even done a search on Google. No images.

Too many redirects occurred trying to open “http://www.428cobrajet.us/home/n28cob2/ ... .jpgâ€Â

[XLT]

Is anyone else unable to get images from http://www.428cobrajet.com/id-block.html

[kid]

I get there most times

[XLT]

I'm about out of ideas for you to see them then, unless I can make them show here:

Maybe right click on images, click properties, copy address and paste images here?

I went back the Cobra Jet web sight, and VOILA ! The images appeared.

[DuckRyder]

I'm about out of ideas for you to see them then, unless I can make them show here:

Maybe right click on images, click properties, copy address and paste images here?

I already tried that... (where it says "nope that didn't work...") They have them forbidden to remote link...

What browser are you using?

[XLT]

Man that was tough. Now we can get back to discussion after technical difficulties.