273????

i was going to go the same way with my 65 dart.
I have the original 273 and trans and wanted to budget build the 273.

I would personally keep the rods and crank .
bore over and throw new pistons and rings.bearings...
good cam/intake/carb/ignition and it will scoot around.

The 273 rods and crank are strong so no need to replace if your running a normaly asperated motor.
Alot of old articles i read showed that the 273 rods were actually the lightest of them all causeing the 273 to rev higher/faster then the rest.
Rods look similar to 318's but are lighter.

Everything counts for me including rod weight since i wanted a high rpm motor.

If you have your trans thats good.
I had alot of issuse with tranny's in my dart.
Basically to keep it colum shifted and to sum all the problems up
You need a 1965 a-body trans you can do conversions and so on but its a hassle or go floor shifter.
let me know if you need anything.


I decided after all my research im building an old blown injected hemi instead .
All my stuffs for sale now to buy my hemi parts