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Building a 383 Big-Block Street Engine For the 11s

Steve Dulcich

When it comes to sheer numbers over a long production run, the 383 was the most common big-block produced by Chrysler. Back in the famed era of production muscle cars, the 383 served duty in performance applications as the standard engine in midrange performance cars, such as the famous Road Runner and Super Bee models. These 383 cars were far more plentiful than their more famous 440 and Hemi brethren, offering a taste of performance to the masses. With a factory rating of 335 SAE gross horsepower, the 383 was not quite up to the level of the upper-tier muscle engines, but with the same cam, exhaust manifolds, and heads as the 440, the 383 seemed to pull deeper into the rpm range, making it more than a match for…

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Engine Masters (Digital) - 1 Issue, Summer 2016

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