440 ID???

[moparnut]

I cant remember what the letter is for each year of 440 and what years were cast and steel cranks,Ex E440 D440 ect.can anyone help?
thanks

[JS27N0B]

I cant remember what the letter is for each year of 440 and what years were cast and steel cranks,Ex E440 D440 ect.can anyone help?
thanks

D is a 68, E a 69, F a 70 etc. this did stop in the early 70's though.
Last year for steel crank in a regular 440 was 1972.  1974 was the last year for a HP 440 with a forged crank.

[moparnut]

thanks

[moparnut]

Ended up buying the engine today,havent decided if i am going to take the truck also for an extra 100 bucks.Got the engine for 400 bucks then looked and saw on the tag E440 HP(69 440 HP) Cool,cant wait until i pull it to check the VIN on the block to see what car it came out of

[moparnut]

ooops wrong post,gettin old,lol

[Plum6Pak]

ooops wrong post,gettin old,lol

That's okay, I just was wondering what engine this was and I can say you got a steal!! Nice find!

[JS27N0B]

Congrats, nice find!

[moparnut]

Funny storry,I got the truck home today to pull the motor when i can and talked to the original swapper that had the 440hp put in.He said a local mountain repair shop put it in and it was out of a 69 charger r/t.Funny thing was about a year ago when i had a 68 roadrunner project i bought a hemi 4 speed from the same repair shop and he said it came out of a 69 charger r/t.I know this is all true considering the Rural locatiion of the repair shop.I sold the hemi 4 speed a year ago when i did some trading with a guy and he wanted it for the RR.So i had the 4 speed from the charger and a year later i have the engine out of the same car,funny how things go around.

[JS27N0B]

Don't sell the engine, the car must be around the corner!!

[moparnut]

LOL I  could still get the tranny back but when i did buy it the guy said the charger was junked because it was tweeked-N_rusted,so dont think it will come around but who knows?If not maybe I'll put in in a mustang just to show the Ferd guys what real muscle is:+)

[Plum6Pak]

maybe I'll put in in a mustang just to show the Ferd guys what real muscle is:+)

Now that's getting close to blasphemy in the worst form! Who'd want to desecrate a Mopar power plant by doing that? LOL, as you said, even if the engine's weren't' built by Chrysler, a huge amount of them Chebys and Fard dragsters are running HEMI's from the same design from the late fifties, the same one Don Garliits used back when they were blowing the doors off of everything with the 392 HEMI.