My 9.5" Short Deck Twin Turbo engine will have a 3.5" stroke crank (Moldex did the crank).
My Standard Deck 10.240" block will use a 4" crankshaft with a Vortech YSi Centrifugal Supercharger.
(neither of these engines will be used for drag racing)
Years ago The Butlers and Travis Quillen built a 482 Engine with a 4.25 stroke crank.
Travis has mentioned several times that he should have gone with the 4" crank to me.
I assume that was because he had plenty of power and possibly the 4.0" crank might have allowed a more consistent launch with the 63 tempest (6.27 @ 228 mph) if I remember correctly was their best ET and MPH.
Tom V.
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