nice to know a common family/old lady car ... a bone stock 4,100 lbs 3.6 V6 charger sxt will be all that Muscle car power of GTX's, Super Bees and R/T's. Do I dare mention a Honda Accord with a V6 that grandma gets groceries in once a week ??
Advancing technology, just about everything improves over time, televisions are a good example. Most of us accept the downfalls and challenges of our outdated cars. Enjoy your Honda.nice to know a common family/old lady car ... a bone stock 4,100 lbs 3.6 V6 charger sxt will be all that Muscle car power of GTX's, Super Bees and R/T's. Do I dare mention a Honda Accord with a V6 that grandma gets groceries in once a week ??
Yep my 2005 toyota avalon would make these look stupid lolnice to know a common family/old lady car ... a bone stock 4,100 lbs 3.6 V6 charger sxt will be all that Muscle car power of GTX's, Super Bees and R/T's. Do I dare mention a Honda Accord with a V6 that grandma gets groceries in once a week ??
Those times always seemed slow to me.... Traction? I don't know. But those times just don't stack up from my experiences
truth is, I was being sarcastic because one ride in a GTX and you'd know the 3.6 charger wouldn't keep up. I'm just going back to my original post 8 in stating that these numbers seem slow to me from my experience......Advancing technology, just about everything improves over time, televisions are a good example. Most of us accept the downfalls and challenges of our outdated cars. Enjoy your Honda.
The MPH tells all.
This will rile some egos and feathers, but the 383 B-bodies in stock trim were pigs. Heavy, severely underpowered (335hp@5,000 at best), undercubed, under RPM'd, under everything.
If you had or have a quick 383, it isn't stock, and it has some gear behind it.
A tuned only 340, especially a 6 pack, or a tuned and warmed over 340 A-body will mop a stock 383 B-body.
Neither of those cars need more than a 10.50 tire to hook and will easily fit under either car, just little more work under the A-body, requiring offset shackles and proper offset.
So do you think if we swapped your (we'll give it the 14.6) 14.6 340 into my Fury at 4350 lbs at the start line it would have ran a 15.2 ?? You'd be adding at least 800 lbs .... maybe a 1000 lbs ?? My thought is it would not. Also, there'd be a little more wind resistance in the Fury.My bone stock 340-s fastback auto, 3:23 open diff ran 14.97 at 97 mph. I had to walk it out pretty good to get it to stick. I was a kid, there was probably 14.6 in it. Weight hurt the 383 then and still does.
I think you're right.
- 383 vs 340, here is a thought.
- My factory stock '68 Plymouth Fury III had a 383, auto, 3.23 and ran 15.2's. I didn't think that was so bad for a car that weighed 4350 at the start line. I don't think I could have pulled the 383 for a factory stock 340 swap and ran faster. I think the 340 would have struggled with the weight, 3.23's and a factory tight converter.
- Thoughts ??
I think you are correct, I don’t think the 340 would like the weight. Bone stock my car weighed 3700, but it had a/c then also.So do you think if we swapped your (we'll give it the 14.6) 14.6 340 into my Fury at 4350 lbs at the start line it would have ran a 15.2 ?? You'd be adding at least 800 lbs .... maybe a 1000 lbs ?? My thought is it would not. Also, there'd be a little more wind resistance in the Fury.
truth is, I was being sarcastic because one ride in a GTX and you'd know the 3.6 charger wouldn't keep up. I'm just going back to my original post 8 in stating that these numbers seem slow to me from my experience......
- 383 vs 340, here is a thought.
- My factory stock '68 Plymouth Fury III had a 383, auto, 3.23 and ran 15.2's. I didn't think that was so bad for a car that weighed 4350 at the start line. I don't think I could have pulled the 383 for a factory stock 340 swap and ran faster. I think the 340 would have struggled with the weight, 3.23's and a factory tight converter.
- Thoughts ??
All the chargers/challengers brand new I see run turn 14.6's. In fact, I guy i know right here in town bought a brand new V6 Challenger and ran a 14.6. I haven't seen a charger go faster, and I've seen enough of them run. Our track is at 600 ft elevation.A 2015 3.6L Charger bone stock runs 14.0-seconds flat at 103 miles-per-hour. I agree that a stock, well tuned 440GTX would take it, but keeping with the discussion of B-body 383 cars. Better look out..
Mind you that Charger weighs 3,900-4,500 lbs.
interesting.My low-dollar 318 ran 14.9's with 2.76's at about 95 mph. Low compression and short block never disassembled. Just a cheapie summit brand cam, stock 318 smog heads that I dremeled, and a 4bbl. I'd say that's a sad day for the "high compression, larger cubes, better heads hot rod engines"... when a X-head 340 and 3.55's can't beat the ET or MPH of a low compression 2.76 geared 318. That's why it seems they are on the slow side.
I know the bore and stroke of a 340. My point is everyone that stays behind the 340 in a A-body while the 383 is pulling more weight and cutting more wind. As far as the BB in a A-body, I think the exhaust got some choked..... But put them both in a 3000 lbs car with the same 3.55's and open headers, I think the 383 takes the win on a 340. And I love 340'sThe 340 isn't meant to be in a heavy car, nor behind a tight vert.
340: 4.04 x 3.31
383 magnum w/hp manifold in an A-body will mop the floor with a 340 A- body, 350 Nova /Camaro, 351/390 Mustangs, period.I know the bore and stroke of a 340. My point is everyone that stays behind the 340 in a A-body while the 383 is pulling more weight and cutting more wind. As far as the BB in a A-body, I think the exhaust got some choked..... But put them both in a 3000 lbs car with the same 3.55's and open headers, I think the 383 takes the win on a 340. And I love 340's
The 383 makes torque lower in the rpm range than a 340 and big blocks usually have a pretty flat torque curve.
- 383 vs 340, here is a thought.
- My factory stock '68 Plymouth Fury III had a 383, auto, 3.23 and ran 15.2's. I didn't think that was so bad for a car that weighed 4350 at the start line. I don't think I could have pulled the 383 for a factory stock 340 swap and ran faster. I think the 340 would have struggled with the weight, 3.23's and a factory tight converter.
- Thoughts ??
Sorry, NOT. Owned them all raced them all. You ever run a LT1 or a 327/365. I've had them also these little small block chevys kicked ***. Sorry the stock 383's magnums were just plain heavy dogs as were the 390 fords. Now I know they can be made to run my freind with his RR all steel 383 went 11.20's in the early 70's.383 magnum w/hp manifold in an A-body will mop the floor with a 340 A- body, 350 Nova /Camaro, 351/390 Mustangs, period.
I did in 1979.