Re: [AMC-List] Forged steel AMC cranks

[Mark Price <markprice242@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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!
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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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