Mailbag: Adjusting Bearing Clearances and Crank Alignment on an Engine That Won’t Turn
This week in our Mailbag, the Summit Racing tech department is troubleshooting bearing-clearance measurement and engine-cranking issues in a small block Chevy. Q: I’m building a 350 Chevy engine and have a problem. When I torque the main bearings down, the crank is very hard to turn over. When I install the connecting rods, the starter
Project Strokers Wild (Part 2): We Build 393 CID Ford 351W
After you build a serious 347 cubic inch Ford 5.0—like we did in our first installment of Project Strokers Wild—what do you do for an encore? You build it a bigger, badder brother. In this second installment of our Stroker’s Wild engine series, we’ll show you how we built a 393 cubic inch 351 Windsor.
Project Strokers Wild (Part 1): Building a 347CID Ford 5.0L
In the great big book of automotive clichés, the phrase, “There’s no replacement for displacement,” can be found at the top of page one. But as much as the phrase is overused, it’s also pretty much dead on. Outside of bumping up compression, adding displacement to your engine is one of the fastest ways to




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