Where can I get a kit to swap my 383 for a chevy 350??

[AKcharger]

Kidding! kidding 

[Mike DC]

             

Where can I get a kit to swap my 383 for a chevy 350??

[John_Kunkel]

Useless info of the day, a Chevy 350 bored .040" with a 400 crankshaft is a 383. 

[c00nhunterjoe]

If going with a tree fiddy, why not just do a 434 and be done with it? Lol

[cbrestorations]

Won many races with a circle track crate 350. Beat the piss out of them, over heated, buzzed 7500 rpm on stock internals and it just kept on runnin. Just replaced valve springs every season.

[AKcharger]

Well it's a good engine but I couldn't think of a more treasonious engine swap than a Chevy 350

[Mike DC]

It's 2021.  IMO the Chevy LS is officially the most treasonous motor now.  The older SBC gets a little scrap of extra cred for being vintage.

       

[b5blue]

Every GM product I have owned turned into a disaster.  

[triple_green]

F&F Chargers used LS

[Kern Dog]

Yeah, because movie production companies are not car guys, they are a business. The Chevy engines are the Harbor Freight of the car industry...They are cheap and work for a little while. They can be replaced easily and cheaply too.

[Fitz73Chrgr]

Well it's a good engine but I couldn't think of a more treasonious engine swap than a Chevy 350

Is it more treasonous than a Mexico-built, late-model FCA Hemi?   

[AKcharger]

Is it more treasonous than a Mexico-built, late-model FCA Hemi?   

I'd think so, it's arguably still a MOPAR

[cbrestorations]

Yeah, because movie production companies are not car guys, they are a business. The Chevy engines are the Harbor Freight of the car industry...They are cheap and work for a little while. They can be replaced easily and cheaply too.

I wouldn't say the LS only lasts a little while...I've seen many of LS engines in the 300k mile plus range and when opened up they still looked great. I built and sold LS engines for awhile. Great engines...I'm not brand loyal, I like Mopars, Chevy and ford. They all have good designs and terrible ones too. Seen many of stock  short block LS engines make 1200+hp too. Show me a stock 440, 383, 340, 318 or whatever old school engine do that without spewing its guts. The modern hemi is great  aswell, just more expensive to put in anything and performance parts are more expensive. The hellcat swap is great though. To me an engine is just an air pump. I really don't care what's under the hood. I wanted to LS swap one of my chargers but got shunned on the thought, so I didn't...now If I'm building a racecar, beater fun car or just throwing parts at a hoopty to just beat the piss out of it I'm going LS. Cheap, light weight, easy 6 speed and cheap to make run. I just wish the modern hemi was mass produced in aluminum. Yes I know you can buy a "block" for 4k...I can build a 600hp LS turn key engine for 4k aswell and that is why it is widely used. If the LS engine only had a dodge part number all you guys would like it too

[Fitz73Chrgr]

If the LS engine only had a dodge part number all you guys would like it too

Which is why hard-line Mopar guys think Mexican Fiat-Chrysler Hemis are "pure".  

To me, parts built outside of the US are "treasonous".  And yeah, I'm aware that my American Racing wheels were made in China.

[cbrestorations]

If the LS engine only had a dodge part number all you guys would like it too

Which is why hard-line Mopar guys think Mexican Fiat-Chrysler Hemis are "pure".  

To me, parts built outside of the US are "treasonous".  And yeah, I'm aware that my American Racing wheels were made in China.

I hope ur not restoring a charger...you will be very upset about where pretty much all the repop parts come from.

[cdr]

If the LS engine only had a dodge part number all you guys would like it too

Which is why hard-line Mopar guys think Mexican Fiat-Chrysler Hemis are "pure".  

To me, parts built outside of the US are "treasonous".  And yeah, I'm aware that my American Racing wheels were made in China.

I hope ur not restoring a charger...you will be very upset about where pretty much all the repop parts come from.

THIS ^^^^^^^

[Fitz73Chrgr]

If the LS engine only had a dodge part number all you guys would like it too

Which is why hard-line Mopar guys think Mexican Fiat-Chrysler Hemis are "pure".  

To me, parts built outside of the US are "treasonous".  And yeah, I'm aware that my American Racing wheels were made in China.

I hope ur not restoring a charger...you will be very upset about where pretty much all the repop parts come from.

I'm aware of that too, not happy about it, but it is unavoidable in a global market.  The point I'm making is that the hatred of "non-Mopar" engines amongst Mopar guys is not based on anything reasonable.  

[Mike DC]

                 
Nothing about the muscle car hobby was ever reasonable or rational. 

[XH29N0G]

Come to think about it, very little about my reactions have been reasonable in the past, but I think I would just feel 'dirty' if I did that, in the eww yuck way, not the heh-heh way.   

[Fitz73Chrgr]

Nothing about the muscle car hobby was ever reasonable or rational. 

Fair point!

[AKcharger]

well if I had an AMC rambler or something I wouldn't feel too bad about a other manufacturer motor swap but there are still tens of Thousands of blocks, heads intakes laying around relitivly cheap

[70 sublime]

Think there is also pride in ownership

Around these parts it was always GM stuff as there was a car plant up the road

Mopar was always the under dog
Not many around

I enjoy the hunt finding the original parts just as much as driving when done
It is always nice to say I have found the original parts and not just used what ever will fit