i am currently building my 400m and i keep reading how bad *** your motor is. where can i go to read about what you have done to yours to get so much power?

 

OK Just a sec. I'll find it for you. If you go to the bottom of the page there a spot there for searching ... type in Stroker .....
there's 3 pages of how too's....

But here's My 4.200 stroker build list for you .


Well sure but if you want to duplicate it you better have a really thick
wallet.
I start with a good 400 Block and have the machine shop go through it
to make sure it's sound. Then fill the block with hard block to just below
the water pump outlet. Then line bore the mains, Install oil restrictor in
the block, Bore the block to .060 over and deck the block to 10.275 height,
That will give me a Zero deck height when I put it together with my
rotating assembly.
My rotating Assembly is a Drop forged steel crank from Scat that was
finished off by Paul's Crank shop out of Texas. Paul off ground it to 4.200
stroke with the journals ending up at 2.200 BBC. My rods are Eagle ESP
Rods 6.800 BBC, They have to be clearanced .050 to fit the Ford crank
journal, The Pistons are special order JE piston with 14.5 Comp. .990 pin.
and the dome to fit the Cleveland head Style, the piston's edges are
chamfered and the tops are hand massaged to relief any sharp edges and a
flame path is machined in the dome to aid in the combustion. Eveything is
checked for clearance Piston to valve clearance is Close, Intake .080
Exe..110 Without head gasket, add .035 for the head gasket and you have
lots of room. I run a Fluidampr out front and a SFI specs. Steel Flywheel
with a McLeod double disk Slipper Clutch in back.
I have two cam choices I run, One is a Crower 15481 which will give
this motor 788 H.P. 658# T.Q. And Engle RJ-38 Which gives me 799 H.P.
667# T.Q. Both cams are Rollers as is the whole valve train Assembly. All
the good stuff Crower Rocker, Comp Cam Roller Lifter, and
Comp Springs. To top this off I have Jarmar Stud Girdle to help keep
things straight up here.
To help with the oiling problem that's been associated with this motor I
prep my main bearings a little by marking where the oil holes are and then
using a drimmel tool and grind the bearing to match the oil holes in the
block. I try to keep the restrictions to where we need them and let as much
oil get to the mains as possible.
And to top the bottom end off I've made a stud girdle for it using one
from 351W and filling in the holes that are 4-1/8" apart and regrinding
them to the 351M/400 4-7/16" spacing.
To help with the oiling I have a 14 Qt. oil pan so I know I'll never run out of oil.
On top is a set of Boss 351C 4V heads with High port plates added and
alot of porting work done to them by Price Motorsports out of Indiana,
These Puppies really flow Big time.
On top of the heads I have a Jack Roush SVO Nascar intake I picked up
off of Ebay. It supposedly will fit 351W or 351C I had to have the runners
milled .350 to get it close and then I had to have the Adapter plates on the
heads milled .300 to get everything to line up.
This intake is as close to a Tunnel Ram as you can get and still call it a
High Rise Intake.To finish this off I have a 850 DP Holley with a little
work done to it by Woodruff Carbs. on top Flows close to 1050 cfm.
On the back side I have a set of Headers I built myself, Cuz You can't
buy none for this set-up. 2" Primary 3" Collector Custom fit Wheelwell
Exit headers and Crankcase Evac system.
I use the FoMoCo Dist. with a little tweaking done to it. I have a
extention from Price Motorsports added to it so it won't hit the intake, and
MSD6AL Box and Blaster Coil And a really good set of plug wires.
Well that's my set-up what do you think.

 

thanks for all the info. how come you went with the 400m instead of the 460? just curious.
im going with...
-edelbrock 750 carb
-edelbrock performer intake
-351 clevland KB pistons with the full floater set up.
-roller rockers
-power flex rings
-aluminum water pump
-stronger push rods
-custom ground cam
-balaced
-block filled
-msd distributer,coil, 6al
-100hp shot of nitrous

what do you think?
any sugestions?

 

OK instead of me posting a 2 mile long post with all the post I've made on this subject Go to this link and read the whole post . It will pretty much tell you the whole story of how I ended up building a 400.

https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/s...threadid=71081

And then if you still need more then search for Stroke or ShaZam
and you'll end up with about 150 pages of reading .