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    View Poll Results: New RSX Engine

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    • Keep the Ford 302, I would buy it for $80K (PM your info..LOL)

      9 9.28%
    • Alum SBC 302 w/Turbo system (700+hp) Keep the strip even if it looks Ford’ish!

      30 30.93%
    • LS w/Turbo System (750+hp) Ditch the stripe!

      58 59.79%
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    1. #11
      Join Date
      Sep 2002
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      So. Cal
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      Quote Originally Posted by Kenova View Post
      I like to think of it as the better way to build a 5.3. The bigger bore improves breathing and the longer rods combined with the shorter stroke reduces the acceleration and deceleration forces the piston/rods see, along with a decrease in the side loads that are seen by the cylinder walls.

      Ken
      I love "Big Bores" shorter stroke engines. They are so to run.

      I was entertaining a normally aspirated all Aluminum Big Block.. 4.500 x 3.760 (478ci) until the cash hit me...I would still dig it!

      Ron DeRaad
      68 Camaro RSx
      Darton Sleeved LS9 - 434ci (4.155x4.00)
      AFR LSX245 Heads (12:1cr)
      660hp/588tq





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