Re: [Amc-list] 199 rods in a 4.0l was Re: Rambler six comma fast

[Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>]

Sandwich Maker wrote:

> their pins are much smaller than the 199's, 0.860" vs. 0.930", but the
> 327 and even the '55 252 six - though oddly not earlier 252s/234s/etc
> - are the same size.

> 6.825" is only 0.700" longer than the 199 / '70s 232 / 4.0 6.125" rod.
> you could just barely handle it on a 199 crank in a '71-up tall deck
> block; by my calc a 1.15" pin height, and that's just about the
> minimum i've seen on any aftermkt american slugs.  i'm not so sure
> you could make it work in a '64-'70 block.
> 
> if the 327 rods had a usable big end, you could just about drop them
> in and run stock slugs on them, with a 199 crank in a 4.0 block.

I'm at work and don't have any printed data; but 195.6 L-head pistons 
(flat topped...) have 1.75" pin height, clearly live happily on the ends 
of those long rods, and the big end attaches to a 199 crank... too bad 
it's only 3.125" across. So close, yet so far away...
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