It would be a cold day in hell before I would spend 3500 on a 273. And that's my opinion.
If it was me, I would drop ANY running SBM in there and drive it. Wll, Maybe I would have kept the 273 in there, but now that's apart. I wouldn't even re-gasket it.
Anybody that extols a stock 273 , IDK.........
Am I a 273 hater?
NO!, I am a really-ist.
The 273 is a
really small engine, with a
really small bore, was
really abandoned by Chrysler over 50 years ago, and
was never resurrected;
really.
There is
really nothing a 273 can do, that
really, any other SBM can't do better. You have to
really love the 273, to spend money on it, and I
really don't care to, especially since, I
really like the 360, lol. Especially with the
really light KB107s, and a smallish 223*cam. It gets
really good fuel economy at 11.3Scr, and goes
really fast and is pretty quick. But
Really; it lays down some really long and dark blackies, which I
really enjoy doing.
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