ryanplayjoint said:
Out of the keyboard of crower:" Mild block notching for clearance issues may be required but nothing major.
HP depends on modifications, but figure 40-50 in displacement alone.
Thanks for your interest in Crower, "
ich_folge the kit is all forged the r/s ratio is with forged everything including crankshaft. Running the ls/vtec with about 10.5 cr should have no effect unless its revved to like 9600 all day. Import review put a 8600 rev limit and said they reched it countless times on they're stock rods and crank with ITR slugs.
So I guess you take every thing a company says about there products as true?
Let’s break this down here
B16A 1.6 liter 160HP
B18C 1.8 liters 180HP
Now according to crower by stroking out a B16A your going to get a 40 to 50 HP gain so a B16A at 1.8 liters is going to make 20 to 30 more HP then a B18C, sorry it don’t add up
When you stroke and engine using the crank method “this is how Crower is doing it” you go with a longer crank stroke and shorter rods
Short rods = high sideload
Long rods – low sideload
Sideload does not really affect the internals for say what it does is put pressure on the cylinder walls at some point something will break and its going to be the rods or the cylinder walls themselves.
If your plans are to stroke an engine you should use the deck plat method “this is how Honda is doing it” this allows you to keep the longer rods this reducing sideload.
Oh ya I almost forgot the Crower stroker kit is NOT all forged, the only part in the kit that is forged is the crank and that’s the low end option
The low end option every thing is billet BUT the crank (cost $2299)
The high end option every part is billet including the crank (cost $3799)
Just so you know forged internals on a high sideload high revving engine would be very bad