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As said, it's not particularly difficult anymore.

Nearly stock 5.7 installed in '69 Charger originally equipped with broken 440/727. For cruisin' not racin', fairly low buck.

It's not mine, it's my buddys. I rebuilt the lower end of the used 5.7, he put the heads and intake on. It's just a stock rebuild other than it has a used steel 6.1 crank that I just threw in there without thinking about potential balance issues (haven't had any issues with it).

-a small block 727 with manual valve body and converter
-Mopar Performance flexplate
-TTI headers and conversion mounts, homemade exhaust
-Mopar Performance oil pan (now ns1, use Milodon instead)
-The same radiator as before with custom radiator hoses (went into the back room at the parts store, bought about 30 radiator hoses, used two that worked, returned the rest)
-A/C delete with a belt re-route
-a low buck power steering cooler consisting of a really long pressure line with lots of bends in it
-A generic aftermarket electric fan
-Alternator B+ wire re-routed directly to B+
-Mopar Performance crate computer, intake manifold and throttle body (FI) (he found a killer deal on ebay)
-stock rails and injectors from a 2004 pickup truck
-electric fuel pump and filter

He could have saved money with hooker headers instead of tti (I don't know why hooker does not promote them better), or might have found exhaust manifolds that would work.
He could have carb'd it for less and used an msd for ignition also.

But that's a low buck deal.
Really the sky's the limit if you want to throw more cash at it.



How much power would you guess he ended up with?



We did a 68 Charger with the following:

5.7 stock block
.030 Milled 5.7 heads with PAC 1218 springs
FRI 215/219 Camshaft .573 lift.
Mopar Carbed Intake / AED 750 carb
TTI headers
Keisler 5 speed
MSD 6 Hemi

It put out 290rwhp with 10 degrees timing and no tuning on the carb.

My personal heads are full ported with a stock eagle 2 piece valve and PAC 1220 springs. Should be good for about 1.7HP/CI on the right motor. These are a closed chamber head.



That is in roughly the same ballpark as what I would guess Evan ended up with. Maybe 380 flywheel on a good day? The long tube headers have got to help a bunch...the stock exhaust manifolds are really restrictive on 5.7s. A guy obviously won't set the world on fire with a build like that but it's a real good cruiser.

Rich H.

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