The car originally had a 440 according to the VIN and fender tag, so I
decided to keep it original.
New, crate 426 hemi's are available from MoPar, but mucho bucks, not just
for the engine, but for all the bolt-ons as well. The old 383 was pretty
tired, as were all the bolt-ons, so we replaced everything.

Oh, cool. I'd assumed it was a 383 car originally. Even though the 426 is
a superior motor, I agree that it's much better to keep it matched with the
VIN, so the 440 was the way to go.


The 440 was built with a mild MoPar street cam and we went with a new 1800
RPM stall torque converter.
Manifold is Edelbrock and carb is a Holley 800 cfm. Also did a
transmission rebuild (727) so it should run pretty good.

It's nicely dressed up, and will soon have somewhere to go.
Barrett-Jackson, January '07?