Bah, you're right. It was the 318. I've been restoring this thing for so
long now that I've forgotten any of the Mopar lore I knew. I'm just waiting
to drive it again.
--John
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> In a message dated 1/6/2003 7:05:27 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> jcwren_at_jcwren.com writes:
>
> << I have a '74 Barracuda that's being restored. The
> original 283 was tossed
> out into the dirt by the previous owner, and a 440 dropped
> in. During the
> restoration, I found a cracked piston skirt, so I had the
> engine rebuilt.
> We're looking for some adapter plates to put it on the dyno,
> but the desktop
> calculation says 475 HP at the crank. >>
>
> Actually, the original engine would have been a 318, maybe a
> 340. There was a
> 273, but was not in production in 1974.
>
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