Destroking an Engine

The 302 Chevy discussion is amusing as the 301 was a bored 283. I do not know the cylinder wall thickness of a 283, but it sounds scary to me. I do know that it was done routinely back in the day. The 302 was a destroked 327. Used to do it all the time, using the factory 283 steel crank in a small journal 327 or the 307 cast crank in a large journal 350 block. It is all semantics. A 302 generally would rev quicker and higher than the 350, assuming the same heads and cam. So your thinking was generally correct, but we don't have the factory cranks, pistons, or rods to destroke Mopar engines economically.