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 ...

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 ...

Not to sound like a parody of Jerry Seinfeld here, but what's the deal with all these identical-displacement V8s from different manufacturers? We've talked about the Ford 427 vs. the Chevy 427 before, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The second generation of the Plymouth Barracuda ‘pony’ car hit the market in 1966 as a 1967 model and went into retirement at the end of the 1969 production year. Three short years, overlapping ...

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 ...