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stihl-066

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Anybody now the engine specs on a 85 351w. Like compression ratio and things like that. Or a good website that has all of that info. I have been looking everywhere and I can not find anything.
 

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compression ratio isnt gonna be anything spectacular, prob 8.5-9.0 at best, the rods and crank are tough as ****, thats what me and all my buddies run in our hopped up 351's.

clean up the block crank rods, put good forged pistons and a top end and you have a killer motor
 

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whats it out of? LTD or truck? stock they werent much in the way of power (HO truck version made 210hp, same as the mustang 5.0) but either way its a good place to start
 
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I was thinking about freshing it up, putting some 10.5-11.5 pistons in it. Then throwing on my edelbrock RPM heads and go from there.
 
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Are these blocks actually any stonger than the 302s?
 
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