Easy to lite 'em up?

[CB]

Shouldn't a stock 383/4bbl ba able to melt up the 275's tires by just flooring it?
Or is my 383/4bbl that tired? 

[Ghoste]

A 275 is a lot of tire to overcome.  Melting up tires is largely a function of leverage (think rearend ratio and converter) so if your stock 383 is geared right, it should be able to.

[Nacho-RT74]

I think I can't do it on my 255s with my stock 400... I don't want try it if I'm not sure. my 400 has only 5K miles on it

[jmanscharger]

My junky 360 clunker car(orig 383) with carb linkages only halfway hooked up will smoke 275 tires if I turn right or left. I credit the sure-grip rear. (I really need some linkage work on my WVA car!)

[Chryco Psycho]

not  at all , if you have a bad converter / cam combo  it may never be able to do it even if the engine is perfectly heathly

[CHARGIN68]

I have a 68 383 with 4bbl carb. It was difficult to spin the tires with .276 gears.  I placed .355 gears in with the stock converter. It has much better acceleration but is still difficult to do a proper burn-out.  The timing may still not be advanced enough. 

[Ghoste]

Again, if the converter and cam don't match each other and a rearend ratio to take advantage of it, it may never light the tires.  It's all a package.

[MoparYoungGun]

Again, if the converter and cam don't match each other and a rearend ratio to take advantage of it, it may never light the tires.   It's all a package.

My uncle has a Mopar 360/380 crate with 275/60's and I believe some 3.55's. He can smoke the hell out of his tires. Given the 3.55's help but his combo is all matched to each other.