383 engine and 4 spd granny tranny for sale

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383 Engine and 4sp Granny tranny for sale.

65k on the engine.. Had a blown head gasket or so I thought. Got serious about fixing it, been driving it while using up a bit of water for about 6 years... All I had to do was add a bit of water every 5k miles or so. Never fouled plugs. During EFI conversion I was going to fix the gasket. Well, much to my dismay a Cracked Block was the problem. About a 2 ½” crack in-between 3 and 5 horizontally positioned about an inch below the valve cover. Because I travel long distances I did not trust pinning and filling the crack, so I pulled the motor and am putting a brand new motor from Smeding Performance. While nice, was an expensive little fix. The exciting thing, a new engine with my new Edelbrock EFI conversion. Very Neat..

The engine was blue printed by a very excellent builder in my area. Using the best 383 Kit available at the time with upgraded forged pistons. Comp Cam.. 268, a notch above a truck type/torquer cam. Heads Ported, Polished, Manley valves if I remember correctly with carbide tips. Edelbrock Performer Manifold with working Quadrajet. Water pump with about 25K on it, fuel pump about the same. No distributor and valve covers, cause I robbed them for my new one. The 70 Chevy 4sp tranny was gone through about 100k ago. New front shaft, bearings, syncs and whatever else needed refreshed. It is still very nice and tight. I don’t’ abuse or drive my vehicles overly rough. The tranny does not try to hop out of gears at all. As I said, very tight tranny.

I am located in Northern Ca. Can ship any of it, just have to figure out what the cost would be. Maybe you could share the cost in crate materials if I need to build a crate for the engine. This baby would be a great motor for racing. Swap the cam out and run that baby.. The crack has been around so long that I think that the block must have been frozen one time before I built the engine. And mildly enough that it didn’t show up under magna-flux. After putting it into service the normal use opened it up. If I didn’t know it was a cracked block I was going to drive the thing to Scottsdale Az. in a month, about a 1000 mile trip. The water usage was never enough to concern me. It never ever tried to heat up, so I trusted it. Now that I know it was a cracked block, I would not hesitate to put this motor in something that stays pretty close to home and drive the heck out of it..