Just bought a 383 for $150

[Splangj]

This engine I believe was stored in a barn, at a now closed dump. It’s not seized, and looking into the oil fill hole, the rocker gear is quite clean. I’m hoping someone pulled it for a project and it’s OK. Does anyone know about the passenger side engine mount? Truck maybe? I’d love to stroke it. 440 source only shows a 3.75 or 4.25 crank for it. also, would TF 240 heads work, or the valves too large?

 

[Lefty71]

1966. Can you get a casting number off that exhaust manifold?
3.75 crank would make a 426.

 

[Splangj]

I’ll go check. I’m not going to get greasy right now and get the block numbers, just opened a beer. Sounds like it’s the same bore as a 426 hemi?

 

[Splangj]

I hope you can read these?

 

[Don Frelier]

A 66 383 with a 2 barrel is likely a 9.2 : 1 out of a c body. We had one in a Newport it was terrific

 

[qkcuda]

I was wondering about that because the 2 barrel B bodies in 66 got the 361.

 

[Don Frelier]

It might be out of a truck but I thought they used a lot of 361s in trucks

 

[Lefty71]

It could have been a b or c body engine with that passenger exhaust casting #.... maybe an intake casting number or the drivers side exhaust casting number?? Of course anything could have been changed in the last 50 years

 

[Splangj]

But that super tall engine mount. I’ve never seen a car with one of those?

 

[Don Frelier]

The pulleys as well.

 

[qkcuda]

But I thought the trucks had center exit exhaust manifolds

 

[Splangj]

I’m hoping it’s an original install. Maybe never opened up. That being said, theRE is no special 383 block, like the 400? After watching the SD Concepts Challenger, I have visions of horsepower.

 

[furious70]

That idler near the ps location is interesting. AC type idler too for fan belt

 

[Burnout68]

Maybe a RV motor?

 

[Geoff 2]

I would ask for my $150 back...

 

[OKDart]

That looks like a 4x4 truck motor mount bracket, or maybe an RV. But a truck would have a rear sump oil pan, and an RV would have either a front or a rear sump oil pan. That looks like a center sump oil pan for a car. And it looks like it has a notch for idler arm clearance, so it'd be from a C body. But I don't recall ever seeing an idler where the power steering goes.

 

[Lefty71]

I’m hoping it’s an original install. Maybe never opened up. That being said, theRE is no special 383 block, like the 400? After watching the SD Concepts Challenger, I have visions of horsepower.

You were talking tf heads and a stroker crank in post number 1...... makes no difference what it came out of if your gonna use those parts..... you will only need a good block and nothing else from that motor....

 

[Don Frelier]

I'd keep the fuel pump pushrod though...

 

[roadrunnerh]

Who cares what it is out of? It's definitely a 383, and what's mounted on it makes no difference.
No difference in blocks.

 

[RemCharger]

It has newer valvecovers on it. Maybe they swapped short blocks at one time.