Called Barton racing on wensday lookin for a r3 block . Ray said he would call Mopar and find out when next run is.Ray called me back after talking to his guy at mopar. Mopar rep told Ray all wedge blocks will never be made again . Fiat has no intrest in it. That GREAT !!!!!!!!!

Not surprised, they are an "all for huge profit" organization. I didnt even know "MOPAR" still existed.

Doesnt surprise me at all... how long has it been
already.. I just hope they sell the sand molds off
and the rights.. I wonder if the gen 3 is next...
but I know they have to support it for some years yet

Must be why Indy wants 3650.00 for an R3...Indy has all the remaining R3's and none of them are siamesed.

I guess I am buying a RITTER block

as it's been discussed before the R3 blocks went "NS1" in June of 14. That's the part code for "DEAD"..... basically weekly demand was next to nothing. If they don't see orders to fill, they ax stuff. Now it's been awhile, but last year I punched in some mega block part numbers and they actually still showed some on back order status. That's a glimmer of hope that they could possibly do another run of them... but with the Fiat thing, I highly doubt it.

I have 2 mega RB blocks (WORLD??)on order show a date of 5/16, there are still a few of R3 blocks in Detroit, PM me if anybody wants one

gary

Sad. Just gotta love the new "global economy".

All these nice heads finally hitting the market and blocks are about as hard to find as striped Unicorns. At 60 years old I have one keith black engine, one mega block, and one 59 degree R3 so I'm sitting ok but is been a hurdle even getting those. I would love to have a Ritter block and really lean on one but at my age spending the money and then addressing the issues is young mans work

900-1100 horsepower, under $20k. Make a call, give them a CC number and it's sitting in your shop a few days later.

A person has to really want to run a Chrysler product to deal with the issues.

YEP it would be a whole lot easier putting a chevy motor plate in.

Are there still the 340 resto blocks in the system
EDIT
I think I will look at the Ritter block post and
see what all that takes to make it work... were
they a siamese block... I know I will be going to
a gen 3 soon but I still have a LOT of LA parts
that I would like to use

and the saga continues...

The G3 hemi will follow closely.

The eyeties have no desire to build Chrysler. It is a wealth transfer.

Fiat has been flat broke more than once. Now they are a global player.

Things that make you go hmmmmmmmmmm.

As long as I can still get a World 440 block..

Hey Mike, lawndart has a aluminum Ritter block up & running I believe. He didn't have the big problems I had with the cast block. That maybe the way to go.

How many times can it be bled out before it's dead?

I know lawndart has been working with Kent about some things he found and said that Kent has made some of the updates that he found dead to the new castings working on some other, just a few tweaks. I myself have ordered a cast iron ritter block, just waiting, ordered it not to far back so must be waiting to get the updates done then will cast the blocks in both aluminum and cast

using this list the following is what I found available:

P4876381AB (1)
P4876791AD (2)
P4876792AD (2)

Why not just buy a aluminum block?