Bah, you're right. It was the 318. I've been restoring this thing for so
long now that I've forgotten any of the Mopar lore I knew. I'm just waiting
to drive it again.
--John
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In a message dated 1/6/2003 7:05:27 PM Eastern Standard Time,
jcwren(a)jcwren.com writes:
<< I have a '74 Barracuda that's being restored. The
original 283 was tossed
out into the dirt by the previous owner, and a 440 dropped
in. During the
restoration, I found a cracked piston skirt, so I had the
engine rebuilt.
We're looking for some adapter plates to put it on the dyno,
but the desktop
calculation says 475 HP at the crank. >>
Actually, the original engine would have been a 318, maybe a
340. There was a
273, but was not in production in 1974.
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