With maturity, short-term goals give way to long-term plans and foresight-at least that's the excuse and rationalization that legitimizes the long and drawn-out history of this Mopar 383 big-block. It ...

For too many years, the Mopar 383 has been ignored by car crafters blinded by the extra cubes of its cousin, the 440 wedge. It's a shame because back in the golden age of the muscle car, hundreds of ...

The term "outlaw" is often used in the Porsche modding communities, describing machines that sacrifice everything in the name of a strong personality. And while we are now looking at a Dodge, this ...

In the late 1950s, Chrysler decided to cease production on its FirePower V8 engines. These were massive, hemispherical engines that would be revived in the mid-1960s and be rebranded to what we now ...

Straight off the bat, it's the engine sizes. The Mopar 383 V8 displaces 383 cubic inches (6.3 liters), sitting between the 340 (5.6 liters) and 440 (7.2 liters). The 340, 383, and 440 all are part of ...

When he was building his automotive empire, Walter P. Chrysler used the General Motors blueprint to diversify the automaker’s portfolio beyond Dodge and the Chrysler brand. However, many nameplates ...

It’s our first head-to-head shootout with two engines: a Blueprint Engines crate Chevy 383 small-block versus a hand-built Mopar 383 by Engine Masters host Steve Dulcich. To make this a fair test, we ...

When Goldilocks got a hankering to break into a house owned by bears, she didn't realize her name would forever be defined as "just right." Something in the "Goldilocks zone" means that it occupies a ...

Internal combustion engines are commonly referred to by their displacements whether its old-school cubic inches or more modern CC and liter nomenclature. If you love cars, you've no doubt heard of the ...

The Chevrolet Tri-power carburetor system—made famous under the hood of hot models such as the big-block-powered L71 and L89 Corvettes—is, to us, one of the best looking ones of all time. Well, the ...