Author Topic: HP383 or plain 383 ? (Read 1702 times)

Racer57 · « **on:** May 10, 2015 - 11:19:34 PM »

How can you tell without tearing everything apart what you have ? Does the HP exhaust sound have a little more loping sound to it at idle ?

Chryco Psycho · « **Reply #1 on:** May 10, 2015 - 11:51:40 PM »

Cam was a bit mpore aggressive , hard to tell by sound , better compression & HP manifolds , probably have to measure the cam with a dial guage on the valve

cudabob496 · « **Reply #2 on:** May 11, 2015 - 01:00:49 AM »

can't use any kinda serial numbers??

73440 · « **Reply #3 on:** May 11, 2015 - 01:36:15 AM »

Looks like engine code 'N' for 383 HP and code 'U' for 440 HP

Chryco Psycho · « **Reply #4 on:** May 11, 2015 - 07:24:11 AM »

The block would be stamped HP behind the alternator

Racer57 · « **Reply #5 on:** May 11, 2015 - 03:46:59 PM »

I have the HP exhaust manifolds, but they could be put on any 383 which is why I asked.

1 Wild R/T · « **Reply #6 on:** May 11, 2015 - 08:39:06 PM »

Look for red valve springs with dampers... Green valve springs on non HP engines...

Author Topic: HP383 or plain 383 ? (Read 1702 times)

Racer57

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