Originally Posted By Bad B-rad
This is my first post here, I had almost this exact question on another site.

SO I have a 69 Charger 383 4bbl A/C 330HP car.
My car is a #'s matching car that is low miles (7,000) and mostly org shape.
It came to me with #'s matching 383 4bbl(Holley)carb, A/C(330HP) engine painted blue(turquoise) and a duel snorkel air cleaner.
It had no pie tin.
My question would be what pie tin should I have,383 4bbl,or 383 Magnum? and do I have the correct air cleaner?
Most 69 383 4bbl A/C cars I have looked up, have the duel snorkel, but I have also come across ever possible combo of color engine and air cleaner and pie tins you could imagine.
SO what is factory correct?
Also what makes the 383 330hp vs the 383 335HP?
I was told it was just the cam, that 383 A/C (330hp) engines uses the cam as the 383 2bbl engine.And the 335hp engine uses the R.R./magnum cam.(just what I was told, I do not know this as fact,just what was told to me)

Could it be the carb?(A/C has Holley vs non air Carter?)
I also would love to know what makes the 5 hp difference between the motors.? And what tin my car should have on it?
Thanks, hope to learn the thing that make the motors different.


Might be wrong but the only 383 engine that used a Holly was the 70 all the others AFB-AVS. 2 cams low performance and high performance + 6 barrel type, same specs just different lobe angle. Each engine each year shared the same head just springs where different, (67 had different ex valve size LP to HP) Chrysler did some stupid things but they did keep it simple on this stuff. Way to many 383 Hemi six-packs out there.