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Technical Areas => Engine Related Items => Topic started by: february2020 on February 14, 2020, 12:07:21 AM

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Title: Stroker Engine
Post by: february2020 on February 14, 2020, 12:07:21 AM

This will be a dumb question but since I do not modify my Trans Am, what are they telling you when they say or mean by a stroker engine.
Andrew W. Ten Eyck

Title: Re: Stroker Engine
Post by: firebirdclub on February 14, 2020, 12:19:20 AM

A stroker typically is an engine whose displacement has been increased by installing a crankshaft with longer throws, thereby causing more swept area of the piston within a combustion chamber. There’s no dumb questions, you’re only dumb if you don’t ask any.
Rob Holfels

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