Thank you for the info. How long did it survive before the fun police came a knocking? I was gonna do a 400 block, stock stroke with trickflow heads but i had the 383 laying around and said whatever, max effort street 383 going in haha.
Actually lived quite well until we swapped the single plane intake for the dual plane (both vintage Edelbrock pieces). He was autocrossing the car and I could see from the side lines that he coming out of the corners MUCH harder with a great increase in low end torque. That was the first spun rod bearing. The second was while the car was on the market and he was going through a divorce. He and his first wife lived out in the country of the central coast range of California so there were many opportunities to drive it hard through the hills.
Due to his life circumstances the car came back here and has sat for about ten years. He and his new wife are moving to three acres with a new house in the next month and will soon have a small shop so that his car can go back to him
