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I have a six quart oil pan on a 383 with headers and high volume oil pump. I’m changing the oil and only 3.5 quarts came out, including most of what was in the filter. I filled the new filter part way before installing (1/3 quart), then put five quarts of oil into the engine. I ran it a few...

What's the general pattern regarding lead time for an engine? Say the car was built April 8, 1968 (St. Louis - if the assembly line matters) - would the block have a casting date two weeks-ish earlier? A month?

I have about ten miles on my fresh 383 now, and took the car into get an alignment done yesterday. Unfortunately, they found a couple front suspension components that need to be replaced first, so I took it back home. I noticed some lifter noise once or twice when I didn't quite get enough gas...

I know this is probably vague, but I have a rebuilt 383 and after the break-in I changed the oil and filter and have put about five miles on it, bombing around the neighborhood. A friend took a video of me squeezing it back into the garage and I noticed puffs of white exhaust coming from the...

Update: I was expecting to have trouble doing clutch linkage and headers, because I'd read it almost never works unless you buy TTi headers. But I put the header I have on the driver side and put the Z bar on the bellhousing pivot and I think it's going to work! I think I'd like to go with a...

(Please, be kind) - I've set up the dial indicator from scratch a few times now, and I keep getting the same readings. From what I can wrap my head around, it seems I need a set of .021 offset dowel pins. .058 divided by two is .029, leaving .008. I can't figure out how the runout on the...

I’m about to weld in the clutch pivot bracket and it seems to sit “funny”. I checked Brewers web site, where I bought a bunch of the conversion stuff a couple years ago, and it seems I was sent the later bracket version that has the tab which goes into a slot on the frame. Are the brackets the...

I stopped at the machine shop to drop off the new heads, cam, lifters, pushrods, head gaskets and timing set. The owner asked if I wanted to the see the block (they'd since stripped it down and did the magnaflux). I said I would and it was sitting on a stand, upside down. He casually pointed...

I dropped off the 383 short block at the machine shop for a "slightly better than stock" rebuild, shooting for around 400hp. Nothing crazy, just want a fun, reliable cruiser. I've pretty much decided to get the Sidewinder heads from Marsh Performance, not sure what camshaft to get or if the...

I was cleaning up the engine on the stand and was trying to get the plugs out of the side so I turned it up a bit to get some light on it and I heard a clank clank clank.....clank. Four of the lifters had slid out of their bores. Several others were about to fall out, but didn't. I've heard...

I seek your collective wisdom. I have the 383 torn down to the short block and am starting to get things cleaned up for a new set of gaskets. I've looked around the web for pointers, and many of them suggest 'spraying down the engine internals after clean up'. Spray them down with what...

Good evening, I finally decided to take apart the Hurst shifter, clean it up, and do a quick mock up on the transmission. I have a 6356 shifter with non-console handle and all the lever numbers check out. I picked up a Hurst installation kit a couple months ago - 373 4089. I'm wondering if...

Good Morning to all of you! The list of things to get for the four speed conversion is dwindling - need to clean up and paint everything before getting started on assembly but nothing came with hardware. Does anyone have a list handy of all the bolts I'll need to get? Flywheel, pressure plate...

Hello everyone! Things are starting to get interesting as I begin to gather more stuff for the Charger. I'm headed to the Portland Swap meet next weekend where I hope to get most of the big things needed for a non-console four speed swap. Does it save any money to buy a used trans and get it...