360-383 A-debate...max builds need not apply.

pishta said

wazzup with the 400's then? Smog crap choked the 383 to sub 360 levels so they had to up their game in CID. Still think that was one of the biggest pigs in stock smogger form, Pathetic! Just about every big displacement motor in the last half of the 70's was a joke. Now its the base for some screaming 451's

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I wouldn't say a joke. I pulled a '89 360 out of my '89 D150, and dropped a smog 400 2bbl in it. Added a 4bbl and headers and it ran 14.5 with 3.21's and a sticky brake caliper that ended my day at the track. Stuck so bad on the start line I was afraid I'd not make it back home. Don't you think 14.5's is respectable in a D150 for a smogger that I didn't even take apart to freshen up? Do I hear a factory '73 340 A-body whinning out there...???? LOL:poke: