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  1. Joey N

    383 power upgrade help

    Oh I know you didn’t say that I’m just joking but thanks I should by then anyways since they’re made in America not Chinese stuff
  2. Joey N

    383 power upgrade help

    Okay I’m not thattt dumb man I haven’t bought them the guy said I could steal a few pics and ask on forums
  3. Joey N

    383 power upgrade help

    Can anyone tell me if 15x8 4.25 backspacing rears will fit on my 73 duster aswell at 15x6 3.25 backspacing on the front? Also it has disk brakes on the front drums on rear
  4. Joey N

    383 power upgrade help

    No sadly I was thinking of transferring but I’m already half way into my junior year
  5. Joey N

    383 power upgrade help

    I have a A833 OD that ill have to take to a shop i believe its from 77 Has a plat on it that i believe was put in an A body at some point maybe someone here could tell me. Ill try and find a pic of it and post it below within the next hour currently in Class!
  6. Joey N

    383 power upgrade help

    Where do I find the build?
  7. Joey N

    383 power upgrade help

    Thank you for your support I’ll get the numbers to the pistons and scrape the carbon off the top of em
  8. Joey N

    383 power upgrade help

    I am certainly no rich kid I bought the engine for $700 since then been working every few days after school in a grocery store for this build it’s honestly one of the only things I look forwards to every day is thinking about getting it in the car lol. I’ll get better pictures of the cylinders...
  9. Joey N

    383 power upgrade help

    I believe it was to be comp cams nostalgia cam kit it was I think .509 lift
  10. Joey N

    383 power upgrade help

    should I get new springs or is whatever is on there will be fine
  11. Joey N

    383 power upgrade help

    Wow! I can’t believe I didn’t think of something that simple haha
  12. Joey N

    383 power upgrade help

    Okay I think I’ll just get that kit then and does anyone know any good rocker arm shaft and assembly I should replace the old one with I just want to be safe since it wasn’t tightened down it might be bent
  13. Joey N

    383 power upgrade help

    Does anyone know what the lift is on the Hughes whiplash I can’t get a clear answer and I don’t understand the spec sheet it gives you I’ll post a picture is it too much for my motor?
  14. Joey N

    383 power upgrade help

    Okay thank you this really does help I’ll see about getting it honed I just wish I knew the compression ratio I’ll figure it out someday I guess maybe I’ll get it all together and then get it checked I’ll be doing what you said
  15. Joey N

    383 power upgrade help

    Sorry for crazy delay it’s been raining here a lot and the engine is outside under tarps holes have rags in them tool to measure TDC came but I don’t know how to spin the crank shaft by hand/tool here are some photos of the pistons and heads
  16. Joey N

    383 power upgrade help

    Ill run over to oreily's today and get the feeler gauges so ill figure it out and send the results
  17. Joey N

    383 power upgrade help

    Okay so are you suggesting going for some aluminum heads? And based on all my now known knowledge I can't just throw the heads right on I have to get them checked? Some of this confuses me of course so I'm not trying to be real hard to work with it isn't my goal to annoy all of you I really...
  18. Joey N

    383 power upgrade help

    I had to order the part because know one I know has it most of my friends don't even have cars and if they do they're new so I guess it's something that will help for future builds too
  19. Joey N

    383 power upgrade help

    I dont know of when they bored it over if they touched the heads should I just run em and put a new cam headers valley and call it a day?
  20. Joey N

    383 power upgrade help

    The guy that had it last didn't tighten down the 2 middle bolts on the rocker arm shaft and so when I go tit it was loose and I think that's the reason that the cam was lobed is that shaft still useable or could it have gotten warped?
  21. Joey N

    383 power upgrade help

    Okay so most the info I've received is that I should only go aluminum if I need that preformance otherwise stick with the 516's and port em does anyone know roughly the cost that would be or the cost to port 440 stealth heads? I think the power goal that I'm looking to get is achievable by just...
  22. Joey N

    383 power upgrade help

    Trick Flow advertises them to fit the 383, 400, and 440 so I believe they do when i first looked at getting aluminum heads I didn't know that they can't just be slapped right on wish they could I also do not know how much it would cost to have them checked i don't need to have them ported do I...
  23. Joey N

    383 power upgrade help

    It should be episodes 50 and 87 of Roadkill Garage Steve talks about it in this youtube video aswell
  24. Joey N

    383 power upgrade help

    I originally wanted to build my 383 just like Steve Dulcich's 383 wreck runner sounds nasty and has good power does anyone now what that set up was i believe it was fairly stock no?
  25. Joey N

    383 power upgrade help

    Okay thank you for your experience and information that will definitely help
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