I'm getting ready to order my stroker kit & my head is starting to hurt because of all the decisions I have to make. What I'm after is an absolute shag-nasty big cammed bad a** street car that I can take to the local drags (50 miles away). When I say say street car, we have no emissions testing, I'll have a manual trans, so I don't care about idle quality & I don't have power brakes, so I don't care about vaccum. I have a 9 mile drive down a Ga. country road to work, so I don't care about mileage either.

All along I've been leaning towards a CHP 408 kit. One of the fellas there (Tim, I think)talked me out of the forged crank kit saying that the block will let go before the crank did. Well, I spoke with Phil at Flatlanderracing today & He convinced me that I need a forged crank & should go with a 393 kit. He said it had a better rod ratio & would wind up quicker. By the way, in spite of his strange accent, he was a super guy (makes me think twice about dealing with the nimrods at chp - more later) very helpful.

My three questions are:

393 vs. 408?

Flatlanders vs, CHP?

For the longest time the hot lick in heads has been the AFR 185. All of a sudden, everyone wants to sell me the 205s, stating that the 185's is not enough head for either the 393 or 408. Is this just because the 205s sell for $500 more, or are they being truthful?

Rick

P.S. if you call CHP & get Eric, ask him to hold on for a second, then call back on another phone. This way you'll be guaranteed to get someone else on the line. What a nimrod. I told him I wanted pricing for a 408 kit...after he told me to hold on for the second time, he came back & asked what else he could get me for my 393 shortblock. This was just the beginning, I could go on for hours, but I'll wrap up with this. I asked for an e-mail quote for the kit, heads, pan, cam.... 24 hours later I got a nice picture of a probe piston instead.