This is a 390 . The 385 series engines are an unbelievable platform to make power on but are huge and would require a different trans or bell housing depending on the application . The 335 series engine is getting more support all the time , and are easily stroked to 434 and bigger . TMeyer inc . is a big name as far as 400 ' s go . They use the same bell as the 429460 . You can go a bunch of ways with the 352 . As long as the bores allow , bore to 390 bore dimension and run a 390 crank , or go to the 3 . 98 428 crank and build a 410 . The problem with staying with , or close to the 352 bore is piston selection . <| sep |> We need a fighter that can Pound the crap out of some soldierterrorist , who is armed with an AK 47 , sitting in a hole in the desert , after the US has already secured air superiority A noncombat role of intercepting vacationing Russian pilots in the Arctic Shoot down a slow moving relatively speaking unarmed hijacked commercial aircraft Make us all feel better about ourselves at the beginning of CFL games or , oddly enough , NHL games in enclosed arenasLet ' s be honest . we were always going to buy a US made jet , not a European one . The US is our closest ally militarily , politically and geographically , and being able to work seamlessly with them is paramount . The JSF more than meets the above requirements , keeps the Americans very happy and has the side benefit of lucrative areospace contracts with our largest trading partner . How the Liberals , then the Conservatives and now the Liberals , keep dragging this out and making bad decisions is beyond me . I ' d say that the FA 18 E is now the favourite to replace the CF 18 . but Boeing has been winding up production of this aircraft and I am not even sure they will still be making them by the time our government makes up its mind . The answer , however flawed some might think , is to order some F 35 ' s and get on with our lives .