Since the introduction of the B-block engine in the late Fifties, Chrysler has produced over four million of these reliable workhorses. During this time the B-block engine has appeared in a variety of ...
In the late 1950s, Chrysler decided to cease production on its FirePower V8 engines. These were massive, hemispherical engines that would be revived in the mid-1960s and be rebranded to what we now ...
Straight off the bat, it's the engine sizes. The Mopar 383 V8 displaces 383 cubic inches (6.3 liters), sitting between the 340 (5.6 liters) and 440 (7.2 liters). The 340, 383, and 440 all are part of ...
Last month we built a mild street engine using a factory Chrysler 383 block, crankshaft, rods, and cylinder heads combined with some aftermarket goodies from Comp Cams and Summit Racing Equipment, and ...
It’s our first head-to-head shootout with two engines: a Blueprint Engines crate Chevy 383 small-block versus a hand-built Mopar 383 by Engine Masters host Steve Dulcich. To make this a fair test, we ...
The second generation of the Plymouth Barracuda ‘pony’ car hit the market in 1966 as a 1967 model and went into retirement at the end of the 1969 production year. Three short years, overlapping ...