Best way to contact Bruce is either by phone or snail mail.

 

Phone: 815-433-1393 (7:30AM- 8:15AM)

 

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Lorena, Texas (South of Waco)

Frank, I appreciate the reply.  Looked for ph.# can't find it, all I have is e-mail address.  No response.  Could you give me the ph.# or tell me how to find it.  Thank you, Charlie  webconst@gte.net

Call him, 9:oo am Central

Frank/Rebop

Bristol, In ( by Elkhart) 

I have e-mailed Bruce Young @ Y-Block magazine and the address on this site several times to subscribe to Y-Block mag and have received no response.  Any ideas?  Thank you, Charlie

At Webconst@gte.net

My neighbor's engine has been run in but he has not had it out on the street. He wanted a pretty tame idle so his wife could drive it. It should give some of the poorly tuned overcammed early Vettes a run for their money.

RB,

How did you neighbors rebuild turn out?  Has he taaken it to the drag strip?  I remember you used an E4 cam, which I think might be great for low end torque and driveability.  I'm thinking of going +.060 (my extra block needs to go +.060) RPM-300 cam, and a little gain in stroke with the SBC rods. 

Paul J. - '57 E Code

OOPs forgot the link  http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/SBF-FORD-351W-H-BEAM-ROD-6-200_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp1742Q2em153Q2el1262QQcategoryZ33623QQihZ027QQitemZ400007947324

Here is a link to the Rods for a stroker using stock pistons. They have gone up some since I bought mine Use CRS 6200 F scrub rod bearing and ford piston pin

The issue of YBM where I wrote about my neighbor's 56 312 buildup is May-June of this year.



The economical H beam rods with a 2.1 bearing and a .912 pin are the key to doing this cheaply.



RB

Offset grinding the rod journals on a Y crankshaft is by far the most economical way to increase the stroke in the Y.  For a 312 crankshaft, you can get up to a 3.52” stroke with a 2.100” journal, 3.62” stroke with a 2.00” journal, and 3.73” stroke with a 1.889” journal.  For a 292 crankshaft, you can get up to a 3.38” stroke with a 2.100” journal, 3.48” stroke with a 2.00” journal, and 3.59” stroke with a 1.889” journal.  These are all best case scenario numbers and if the crankshaft rod journals have noticable wear or have been previously turned, then the max stroke will not be achieved.  You also have to be cautious in any widening of the journals that’s being attempted as it’s easy to intersect the oil galleries in the radius of the journal depending upon the particular crank design that’s being offset ground and how much stroke increase is being targetted for.

Doing a search on this site using “offset grinding, Eagle rods, etc” as the key words brings up a number of past posts regarding increasing the stroke on the Y cranks.  Here’s links to some of those threads.

http://www.y-blocksforever.com/forums/Topic9269-3-1.aspx

http://www.y-blocksforever.com/forums/Topic2298-5-1.aspx

http://www.y-blocksforever.com/forums/Topic2615-3-1.aspx

http://www.y-blocksforever.com/forums/Topic10709-3-1.aspx

Lorena, Texas (South of Waco)