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Old 20-09-2005, 07:53 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by twilightprotege
yeah rod ratio is the length of the conrod vs the stroke. contrary to popular belief, you can have a small bore and big stroke and the engine can rev like no tomorrow. it's all got to do with the rod ratio. same with the small stroke and big bore being rev happy and big hp. it's very general and i guess anyone can change an engine characteristics
If you look at the www.flyinmiata.com stroker kit for the BP engine the engine is stroked to 1995cc with 8mm longer con rods. This is to maintain revability of the BP engine. I'm no engineer but I'm sure if you googled rod ratio you would find many answers.
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