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you can get fuse blocks like these from places like Amazon

Yes and you could of answered most of your questions with just a Google search, (like most of us do) and your asking a very particular question about an engine your don't have or seem to have any interest in and even if you did doesn't seem like you plan on doing a rebuild and you had answer in...

@318willrun is this all academic or are you thinking about doing a 383 swap ?

Never bought from these guys but looks like they might have what your after. Mopar Restoration and Performance A-BODY ELECTRICAL, Wiring Harnesses

Even though there's is some benefit to run a 383 at lower hp like gearing, a 360 would generally make more sense for most unless you have or would rather invest in the bbm platform, with 360 only place to go is basically 408, starting with 383 is ground floor up to 500+ cid are possible down the...

If you go Ford type starter relay then only a short wire from the battery to the relay has power all the time the rest of the cable only when starting.

I'm not saying the 360 did or didn't make more overall power, but at least some of that 3 tenths could be that more than likely the gears and stall suited the 360 better. One of the main reasons to go larger less gear and stall generally needed.

We use to have the tailpipe test but because of our winters causing cars to rot, most drive fairly new cars so garage's weren't making enough money off of it, so it's gone for now.

I don't know exactly what you need but it's got to be more than the maximum amps you will draw and small enough to protect the cable you put it on. Here's the 1st chart I found Power wire Max fuse size 00 AWG 400A 0 AWG 325A 2 AWG 200A 4 AWG 125A 8 AWG 50A 10 AWG 35A 12 AWG 20A...

My Avenger RT goes pretty good, there impressive little engines, got to be decently into the 300's gross hp, plus there geared to take advantage of the power they make. That's a 12.39:1 Total 1st gear Gear Ratios1ST 4.127, 2ND 2.842, 3RD 2.283, 4TH 1.452, 5TH 1.00, 6TH 0.69 Reverse 2.21...

There's really no plus of a 318 with 360 crank over a 360. But built similar they will make similar power and torque since there now fairly close to the same size.

That's family sedans numbers now :)

Eg.. A decent out of the box average available heads for 360 is SM, Eddy, Trick Flow, to build a 383 similarly would have to use similar hp capable heads as these which you can easily exceed with average available bbm ootb heads.

If you build them similar there gonna perform similar, it's just the 383 has a decent amount of advantages so if you built them similar you would of have to held the 383 back one way or another.