Originally Posted By JohnRR

Do you have a list of the parts that CME will use, building a 383 is tricky because parts selection pretty much sucks.


I agree. The 383 is a more difficult build (on a budget) than the 400 and 440 because there just is not a good selection of off the shelf parts (mainly pistons). Because of the short stroke, there is also a big tradeoff between low end torque and peak HP. To minimize the tradeoff, the cam and compression ratio need to better optimized for the fuel used compared to a longer stroke engine (unless you just throw a high stall converter in it to stay out of the lower RPMs?)