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383 2x4 was 343hp now 330 hp .......I'd love to build one of these cars, I had a '62 Dodge wagon back in '72 with a 343hp motor,and it flew. .....Of course I got all the good hand me down parts from my Uncle when he got the latest trick cam from Lunati ,or a new converter from Turbo-action!.........Good bodies are really scarce in the North East. ......A good friend of mine, Mike Wiley actually made a nice 4 door car into a 2-door post body ! .........One of the Mopar mags did a feature on it a few years back. ...........Unless you saw the photos of it being done , you'd never believe it! ..............Tom

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Wish I could locate my old '62 wagon superstocker we ran back in the late 70's. Haven't seen the car since 1979 but would syre love to have it back.

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Checking the NHRA Classguide shows that in order to run B/SA, the car would be using one of the 413 max wedge engine. Both the 410 and the 420 horse engines have a natural class of A. The 383-343 engine is a natural E with the Fury 2dr hdtp body.

Travis

(Disclaimer: Opinions expressed by me on this forum are exactly that, my opinions.)

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Its a 413 crossram. Dwight is right

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CAR 54 WERE ARRRRRE YOUUUUU...OOH! OOH!:):):)

guess im showin my age:rolleyes::cool:


stacy
gtaa

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It's indeed, a 383 with 2-fours on top; a solid lifter motor with .445/.445 lift at the valve, and a de-factored NHRA "Stock" HP rating of 320; just 6 more than a '71 Duster 340, which has a single 4bbl, hydraulic lifter, motor.

Somebody (Messr.'s Bennett and Widuch) did their homework!!! :) LOL!

I think this may be the motor -type that was in a notorious MoPar station wagon back in the '70s or '80s, called "THE BEHEMOTH." Could be wrong about that...

I also seem to remember that it was never an assembly-line option; just an NHRA-legal "dealer-installed-option" from years and years, ago...

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but this could have been the original "paper car" engine.

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The Bennett/Widuch car runs D/SA.

No way to get a '62 Plymouth 2-door sedan into D with any of the available 413's.

It's a 383, with inline 4bbls.

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It was originally a POLICE CAR engine option in 62.

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Never heard that one...

I learn something every day!!! :)

Thanks, Terry.

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I remember when I was in High School the police Dept in the area (Seat Pleasant, Md.) had 2 of them. A 4 door and a 2 door sedan Plymouth Savoy. We thought they were the uglist cars we ever saw.....lol. Both were black all over and the slant six cylinder 4 door cars were black and white. Several of the guys I ran with were friends with some of the guys on the force and we got to look under the hoods of the two 383 cars. Man those 2 X 4 barrels looked so cool to guys who had just gotten their liscense only a few months before and were driving cars you wouldnt want to be caught dead in today.....lol. The 6 cyls were the town cars and the 2 383 cars were the hi way cars.
A guy name Al Procopio who lived near my school had the first 1962 413 Xram car I ever saw but it was a track only SS/SA car. His company built Cecil County drag strip, Capitol raceway, and Aquasco speed way. They made quite an impression on young minds back then.