1977 383 Hemi????

[Nik]

I love reading Craigslist ads and wondering what the seller was smoking. I'm half tempted to call him up and ask for some pics.

http://amarillo.craigslist.org/cto/3916577967.html

[SpiderGearsMan]

solid cam too ?

[Ron Ward]

My thought is someone got pranked. I bet he gets a ton of phone calls.

[Dan Barlow]

I bet he thinks every Chrysler engine is a hemi.

[Deaf Bob]

HEMI sells, thus every Mopar is a varation of a hemi...

[Barry Donovan]

HEMI sells, thus every Mopar is a varation of a hemi...

great idea.

my sube has a hemi too.

"yeah, its got a hemi."

[68scott385]

I'd like to SEE this. Contact him for pics, see what of coughs up.

[Barry Donovan]

I'd like to SEE this. Contact him for pics, see what of coughs up.

could be as simple as year of rebuild.
maybe a unique story.. day zero being 1977 from a crate or something.

Those things do happen. I remember a 383 in a satellite..the engine was thought to be a marine engine, most likely sat around as a serious backup.

broke the car all to shit, but that was a beautiful engine.

[Huskinhano]

A little off topic and most likely not the case here but IIRC, years back there were aftermarket Hemi heads that were meant to bolt on to 383 B blocks and 440RB blocks. The bolt pattern was slightly different as well as the exhaust rocker was different due to slightly different push rod angle

[DanStokes]

Indy made them - maybe still does. No idea how well they stack up to "real" Hemi heads. Judging by the price, this engine is not so equipped.

Dan

[Beagle]

have to drag this picture back up, but my one lung Honda's have a hemi.

[oj]

A guy called yesterday trying to sell me a 392. He said it was drag race with 2 4bbls on it. I asked if it could turn over, he said it had 2 4bbls. Did it have adjustable rockers? He said it was a drag race motor. How much would i give him for it?
The coversation went downhill from there and he hung up on me.

[SpiderGearsMan]

STAGE V hemis for b and rb
Since 1986, people the world over have enjoyed affordable Hemi power thanks to the Stage V wedge-to-Hemi Conversion heads. Based on inexpensive yet extremely rugged 440 wedge block, the Stage V Hemi Conversion motor offers more power than the original 426 Hemi while costing thousands less. A few simple block modifications using common hand tools are all it takes to bolt these high flowing Hemi heads to any wedge block.

Stage V Conversion heads start out as foundry fresh castings which incorporate numerous revisions allowing them to be used on any B or RB wedge block. The stock outward appearance has been preserved for those with an interest in getting the impressive good looks of an actual Hemi. But inside, our Conversion heads feature improved ports which will out flow any similarly prepared 426 Hemi head. It's the best of all worlds original looks, low cost and better performance.

[Loren]

the Stage V Hemi Conversion motor offers more power than the original 426 Hemi while costing thousands less.

As if five thousand bucks for a pair of heads in 1986 was cheap...

At that time there were simply no original heads or blocks left that weren't going to restorations, and the differences between Hemi and 440 blocks were minor enough that this guy Eric Hanson thought there was a niche there for people who actually wanted to go racing and started the Stage V deal. The main trick with head design was that the Hemi intake port goes right over a block bolt position which in a stock motor is addressed by having a stud go down from the head into a position cast in the lifter galley, which you can see in the pits any time the heads are off a fuel motor. For the Stage V conversion, you unscrew a cap in the top of the port and run a small-headed bolt into the floor, no stud.

Steve Magnante was working full-time at Stage V in those days, while doing some freelance writing work pre-Petersen. His ten-sec street Hemi Dart was all Stage V stuff.

That bolt-in-the-port-floor deal was a flow impeder so as an experiment Eric built a couple sets of heads that used the original-type Hemi studs instead but the block had to be modified for it. While he was at it he changed the pushrod path on the end ports to the point something called a "shuttle" had to be used...the benefit was that the ports were huge. One of these sets was purchased by friends who were running a stock body Plymouth Satellite at Bonneville, pushing 200. While the setup might have been suitable for drag racing, at wide-open-throttle and after fifteen seconds of running time a stock 440 block under these heads became a hand grenade and after many fragged parts it just didn't work out. Those one-of-two sets heads wound up in my hands for the Challenger and then when Chrysler re-introduced Gen II Hemi stuff in the nineties I scored one of their siamese-bore, cross-bolt high-nickel blocks and was good to go, except for that one little part where life gets in the way. I don't think it actually hit the street until the early 2000's but there were still very few Hemi's running around back then.



It still could use some dialing-in at the strip and never exactly had an expert driver. After not hooking worth crap it would hit about 100mph in the eighth (full street trim, no NOS).