Boring is when you increase displacement by removing material from the cylinder walls, its also a means to unshroud the pistons, and achieve perfect round in the cylinder bore. Stroking is installing a different crankshaft with a larger swing so that the pistons come down farther and go up farther. By taking a standard 302, installing a stroker crank and boring the block 30 over, you would have a 331 or 347 depending on which crank kit you got. More displacement equals more power. The boring is good for 5-6 cubic inches, and the stroking makes for the other 40 cubes. I would say, if money isnt an issue and your going to redo the engine, then buy a DSS short block and AFR heads. For a stroker you should go with AFR 185's, which means that the intake runners are 185 cc's. The larger the cc runner, the more rpms and power it can support because it will allow more air to flow to the combustion chamber. Too large and the car will be sluggish off the line, but a screamer at high rpms that your engine may not be able to handle. Since you are running a super charger, I would recommend no more than 9.0 to 1 compression ratio. When you order your engine kit, make sure they know that you are using a power adder. This will mandate forged low compression pistons with valve reliefs for the AFR 185 2.02 intake valves or any head you buy with larger valves. If you are going to run your stock pistons, then you'll either need to buy TrickFlow heads with 2.02 canted valves, or no more than 1.94 intake valves. All aftermarket heads except trickflow use the standard valve angle which will hit your piston if they are larger 2.02 valves. Only trickflow cants the valves so they wont hit, and then you can run 2.02 valves. The optimal setup would be a 331 or 347 stroker with at least forged pistons, and I-beam rods, 9.0to1 comp, custom cam, AFR 185 heads, intake of your choice, and a 75mm throttle body. But this is just cracking the ice on this subject. There are a million things to think of, but this will give you a rough idea. Check the sites for AFR, TrickFlow, Vortec, and DSS to get a good idea of how all the parts work together and what each part they make is used for and how much it costs. if your going with a blown stroker, then get either a Tremec TKO, T56 6 speed, or GForce T-5. Again, there are a bunch of things to go with tranny choice. You'll need a either a spec clutch or centerforce dual friction to hold that kind of power.
