So a little over a year ago I started down the path of building another '68 383 "beater" motor for my '68 Bee and stash her factory original 383.

Unfortunately I got too busy to get on the build despite having parts on hand and machining done. I'm happy to say that the build is now going forward.

The basic recipe was to punch it .030, use 1.320 CH Diamond flat-tops, BBC 6.700 K-1 H-beam rods, and a 3.915 crank from 440 source yielding 451 cubes. Pistons are only 498g so it should still rev like a 383. Rod Piston assembly is about 450g lighter than the stock 383.

I wanted a bone stock look so I enlisted Dwayne Porter to prep me a set of Stealth (straight plug) heads and he spec'ed me up a comp solid cam to work with factory exhaust manifolds.

Short block is almost together, cam is degreed, its finally getting there! More later