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Originally posted by camaro_fever68
Well, I've only ever built one 283 and it was in a hyped up rage and a bet right after I blew a engine street racing. After I got my busted motor home the guy I was racing when it blew came by and started running his mouth and P.O.ed me a little more kinda like digging in a open wound and I had an old bone stock 283 in a corner that came out a '63 Impala and I told him I would build that lil baby motor and spank him right now!! He laid $250.00 on the table and told me he'd make me blow another one and take my money. So, I pulled my busted motor, went up in the loft of my shed and got down some old angle milled 461X and a matching Victor Jr. intake. I grabbed a Erson solid roller 278 and lifters out of another box. ( I think the specs were 236/246@.050 on a 108 LSA with .555 lift) I still got it somewhere. And built this motor with a used .018" copper shim head gasket and parts laying around in about an hour and a half it was running in the car. When I backed it onto the road and hit it in front my driveway, I knew what was up. This lil baby motor was pretty bad!! Ol' boy was leading the way and I was hanging back looking for my power band. When we got to the river road, we lined up, and when we took off, I thought I was in trouble. That lil motor let him jump me by a car at least but when it hit 4k RPM, the race was on. I held that lil motor to 7500 and shifted out of fear, not cause it quit pulling. I beat him by 1-1/2 cars and he came up with some lame excuse so he added another 100 bucks to his side and we ran again. I came off the line at 5k and it picked the front wheels up about 8-10 inches and was gone. I beat him by 4-cars that run and he didn't even stop and come back. I got my money from the flagger, me and my boys went back to my house to drink some beer and laugh. I kept that lil baby motor in my car while I was building another one. At the track it ran some mid to high 11s
This is by no way a recommendation for you to set your motor up like this. That was a Monza and a 4-speed with 4.30 gears and a 28" tire. Just before pulling the motor, I ran it to 8200 three passes just to see if it would do it. It acted like I babyed it. Held together with no sweat. With a career best of 11.41 and still running strong, but leaky, I pulled it and put a 383 and a automatic.
You pulled a 283 out of the corner installed an Erson soild roller cam,461x heads,.018 copper head gaskets,and you pulled the front wheels off the ground 8-10 inches in a street car?You ran it to 8,200 on three pass's.You do know there are some young kids on this forum and they might think this story is true.Some of us where born at night but not last night.Sounds to me like someone has been drinking a little to much hooch.:LOL: :LOL: :whacked: