Thread: 283 build questions

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yes but improvements can be made.....................scooter ALOT of improvements

. . . anything and everything produced by the factory will out last and out proform any aftermarket hype bullsh8t piece...period...

Then I guess Crower, Edelbrock, Keith Black, Milodon, ARP, Ross, Crane, Dedenbear, Pete Jackson, TCI, Manley, JE, Hooker, Dart, Brodix, Barry Grant, MSD, Mallory, Wilwood, Lokar, Super Bell, Richmond, B&M, Moroso, and a few other should just shut down.

Whatever you're drinking, Charlie, send me some . . .

i agree with your henry lmao that must be some good shit i mean factory stuff really doesnt last THAT long .....scooter

Originally posted by Henry Rifle
Then I guess Crower, Edelbrock, Keith Black, Milodon, ARP, Ross, Crane, Dedenbear, Pete Jackson, TCI, Manley, JE, Hooker, Dart, Brodix, Barry Grant, MSD, Mallory, Wilwood, Lokar, Super Bell, Richmond, B&M, Moroso, and a few other should just shut down.

Whatever you're drinking, Charlie, send me some . . .

Originally posted by Streets
What does it say in the "How to HOT ROD the small block Chevy" OR the "Rebuild yer Chevy Smallblock" book ya bought bi efore ya attempted the "rebuild"??

I did not realize there were that many 64 ss owners in Club Hot Rod. I had a 64 impala ss 327 250 h.p. 4 speed 40 years ago. yellow. At the time I would like to have had a red 300 4 speed.A couple of years ago i found the car with the build sheet in the car. the 327 was gone and a worn out350 was in its place. No carb. no dist. and all 4 brakes were lockedup . I paid more for the car than I paid for in Jan, 1965. A friend of mine has the matching numbers short block, built two months to the day prior to the build date on the car. That date is perfect. bored 030 plate honed .forged flat top pistons, comp cam. cloyes double roller timing set.Sinclair Impala parts, Danville Va. is where i am buying my restoration parts . they tell me going original with a 64 is not going to have any more value. They have a 59Impala on the cover of their catalogue. The owner there says he went to a lot of expense to do the original 283 and has since wished he had put a new crate motor in it. Ihave a355 race motor that we built for stock car racing over 15 years ago that I never used . Also have a new set of Brodix track 1 heads that Ive had for years and never used .They think the car will have more appealwith that motor.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by riverhorse59
[B]Sinclair Impala parts, Danville Va. is where i am buying my restoration parts .

I have bought parts from Sinclair and they seem to have most anything and ship quick.
It is the original 283, but the main reason I used it is I had a 2yr old 64 SS right after HS with a 283. Its a daily driver anyway.
Cant stand those foreign cars that sound like a fart going down the road. Ya might get a few hp numbers out of them, but no torgue. Foreign is just wrong.

in: finishing all but putting on the intake.
out: dropping a bolt down the lifter valley drain hole.@%**$#@
out: removing oil pan to remove bolt (after beer buzz is gone).
in: its back together again.

Originally posted by gassersrule_196
you may want to have your machine shop tap the crank and get a streetdamnpner or fluiddamnpner depends on the radical-ness.........scooter p.s i have a 283 bored .125 over is fine on the street 12:5-1 compression no issues and yes i do have msd 6-al with a pro billet distributor....my 2 cents lol...............scooter <again>

That's all a 302 is - a 283 bored +.125" (4" bore, 3" stroke).

Originally posted by gassersrule_196
you may want to have your machine shop tap the crank and get a streetdamnpner or fluiddamnpner depends on the radical-ness.........scooter p.s i have a 283 bored .125 over is fine on the street 12:5-1 compression no issues and yes i do have msd 6-al with a pro billet distributor....my 2 cents lol...............scooter <again>

That's all a 302 is - a 283 bored +.125" (4" bore, 3" stroke).

well my motor bored .125 comes to exactly 301.6 the 1st 302's were 327 blocks with 283 cranks then in 69 they made 302 blocks but only!! in 69............scooter

A 302 in 1967 used a small journal 2 bolt block. In 1968 all small blocks went to large journal cranks During 1968 and 1969 they based the 302 on a 327 large journal with 4 bolt mains. they used 3 different cast #s on those blocks in 68 & 69. These motors were built for chevrolet to compete in the Grand American series of Nascar and to my knowledge were available only in camaro ,however , somewhere in the back of my mind I think it might have been an option in a corvette one year.

dont you mean the trans am series where the cubic inch limit was 305.

Could be! I thought about that when I said it.You are proberly right.Remember going to the Paul Revere 250 under the lights at Daytona in 1969. I remember the cars for that race were equipped with lights.