Re: [AMC-List] Forged steel AMC cranks

[Wayne E LaMothe <superglider@xxxxxxxx>]

IIRC they got 418 out of the 327.  One of these days I will finish the
adapter plates for mounting the torker on the 327. 

Wayne

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On Mon, 3 Jul 2006 8:46:51 -0700 Mark Price <markprice242@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
writes:
> I forget how much you can get, but the rod hitting the block or 
> bottom of the piston is usually the limiting factor :]
> Don't try this at home!
> If I had the money I'd love to have a 327 cranck done so I could 
> really replicate the Bill Kraft Rambler!
> --
> Mark Price
> markprice242ATadelphia.net
> Morgantown, WV
> 
> 
> ---- Armand Eshleman <aje1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
> > I found a machinist that alters existing cranks by welding 
> additional
> > material onto the rod journals in a strategic location using a 
> submerged arc
> > method. Watched as he proceeded to drastically lengthen the stroke 
> of a two
> > cylinder tractor engine. It was almost half the rod journal 
> diameter. The
> > antique tractor pullers love their stroked engines too! He 
> straightens the
> > cranks and machines them too. He has an induction hardening 
> machine. Not
> > sure if that works on cranks. Any way I was impressed!
> > Wondered how well this would do on an AMC forged 390 or 401 crank. 
> How much
> > displacement could a guy end up with??
> > 
> > Armand
> > 
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