I hate making big decisions LOL. I have my 460 tore down now and I'm on the fence wether to leave it a stock stroke, or to go to a 4.3 scat. The engine is in my mud bog competition truck, and see's no street use at all, trailer queen. I'll be running a solid roller cam top out at 6500-7000rpm, I've got fully ported TFS street heads on it already. So now I have to decide, do I go completely broke, stroke the engine and have gobs of power? Or save a bit of cash and just have lots of power?? LOL. My goal is to get enough wheel speed to hydro plane the front tires to some extent, its a heavy truck so skipping across the top is out of the question. Not sure where to go, you guys have any input for me to help make this decision?

 

Honestly at 7000rpm you probably need to run aftermarket rods anyway, and the stock length rods are more money the the stroker rods (just because of teh amount sold I would guess), the pistons are a wash due to your going to need to buy those either way if rebuilding it, leaving the crank and honestly by the time you have your stock crank redone your not to far off of buying a 4.3 crank. So money wise it's really not that much more expensive but it does gain you almost 60cid and all the associated tq and hp so I say yeah stroke it.

Only reason I would say otherwise is if it will force you up in a class at the races you don't want to play in.