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Re: Stroking a 4.6 Rover?

To: Larry Hoy <larryhoy@prodigy.net>
Subject: Re: Stroking a 4.6 Rover?
From: Susan and John Roper <vscjohn@huntnet.net>
Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 10:14:20 -0500
Cc: MG V8 List <mgb-v8@autox.team.net>
Organization: Vintage Sporting Cars
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Reply-to: Susan and John Roper <vscjohn@huntnet.net>
Sender: owner-mgb-v8@autox.team.net
Now i'm impressed.  Wish my mother understood rear seal problems, metallurgy 
issues,
and questions about gain or no gain from increased stroke.  Your mom is cool.  
John

Larry Hoy wrote:

> You sound like my Mother.
>
> Larry Hoy
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: owner-mgb-v8@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-mgb-v8@autox.team.net]On
> >Behalf Of Susan and John Roper
> >Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2000 8:39 AM
> >To: Larry Hoy
> >Cc: MG V8 List
> >Subject: Re: Stroking a 4.6 Rover?
> >
> >
> >Why?
> >
> >Larry Hoy wrote:
> >
> >> Just thinking out loud here.
> >>
> >> I just came across a 4.6 rover engine.  I have a Buick 300 crank, heads, 
>rods
> >> and pistons.
> >>
> >> So which one of you out there know about putting the 300 crank in the 4.6
> >> engine?
> >>
> >> I looked through the newsletters but didn't see a reference to this.
> >>
> >> Isn't the stroke on the 4.6L 3.23" and the 300CI 3.36"?  I think the
> >mains are
> >> the same size and the rod journals are close?
> >>
> >> OK guys, have at it.
> >>
> >> Larry Hoy
> >
> >
> >




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