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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 right combination of factory and aftermarket parts really made this ex-383 shine. Mixing and matching factory parts yields all sorts of performance wins. This time around, the builder used the ...

To underscore the point, two classic vehicles were fitted with modern Hemis and other Mopar parts and are on display at this year's tuner fest put on by the Specialty Equipment Market Association.

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 ...