The cast crankshaft will not stand up to the pressure of boost, that is why Ford went to the trouble and expense to forge a crankshaft for the SuperCoupe, they even made the rear main different so that you would not put the wrong crank in your supercharged engine. Adding stroke will gain torque but all you need to do with a supercharged engine is turn the boost up and you can gain more torque than you will with the added stroke difference. The design of the 3.8 crankshaft is no where near as good as the small block Chevy, that is why the Chevy and other engines can get by with cast cranks to a point, it is due to design.
The idea that we don't want to take the time to work with some one is wrong. We did take the time to work with some one on this issue and it did not work, that is why I can tell you that it is not a good idea, been there, done that.
The other issue I would like to clarify is that we are not trying to compete with Morana or any one else on price. Our program is all together different. I know that we can not be everything for everyone. There are people that are more concerned with price and there is nothing wrong with that. I will be the first to tell you that we are not a price oriented bussiness. We could do it cheaper but it would not be the product we would want to be associated with. We build high quailty performance and racing engines and it costs money to do this type work, just like it cost us a LOT of money to buy the equipment like CNC machines and Dynos and such needed to do this type work. There is allso a lot of time in the development of products and engines that are factored into pricing. In other words there are burger joints and there are steakhouses, we are one of the steakhouses of the engine builders and that is why it cost more.
Coy Miller.