"RG" wrote in message
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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?


Naw. I am going to keep it for a while. It sits in a specially prepared
space in my garage and we sit around, having a beer, listening to music and
giggling at the car. Once in a while, during the summer, I take it or one
of the others to a local "cruise" night event. I had never attended these
and found they are a lot of fun. Nice people of all ages, many couples, all
with a common interest and many with a great deal of talent. One of the
local cruise night events draws anywhere from 300 to 500 cars every Friday
night, depending on the weather.

RCE