Picked up the 383 today from a local member! Christ $1250 for what I got I would have been stupid to pass it up. I'll have pics up as soon as I can find the cord for my camera but for now here's a list/description of some of the stuff. Not sure if I'll get every little part, he pretty much threw everything that was somewhat related to this engine at me. It IS a B block.
I got,
A 1970 code 383 block, hot tanked, new freeze plugs, new cam bearings, align honed, honed out lifter bores, decked and bored .030
383 forged crank, 6 bolt, magnafluxed and cut .010-.010
383 steel rods,magnafluxed, resized, shot peened with polished beams and new SPS rod bolts installed.
Speedpro-TRW .030 over forged flat tops and rings, already assembled with the rods
Melling high volume oil pump
Double roller timing chain 3 bolt
Engle racing hydraulic flat tappet cam .515 lift with engle lifters and matching valve springs
Crane cams pushrods for adj rockers
A boatload of Accel ignition stuff, dual point racing distributer, a couple caps, rotors, condensers.
Full Fel-Pro gasket set
Extra set of copper head gaskets (will probably use the fel pro ones anyway)
Clevite 77 bearings, mains and rods
Milodon 7qt pan with external pickup
Two sets of ductile iron adjustable rockers
Edelbrock streetmaster aluminum intake
Old school direct connection timing cover
906 heads that have been ported out a bit, need to be finished and have valves installed.
He even went so far as to take the valve covers off a 400 he had sitting in the garage to give to me, great guy to deal with.
So yeah basically I have a complete engine, just need a water pump/housing and valves and that's really about it. Whole thing probably has just as much in machine work into it than I paid, thats not counting all the new parts. Saying I'm excited is the understatement of the century.:burnout: