With my Chall I have owned it for 31 years now & I had decided to do the black Bumble bee stripe , then I took the car apart & the broadcast sheet shows up ARRRg , so I check with a few registries ,no FC7 Purple Challs with a T6 Bronze tail stripe
OK I will restore it properly , it is a real R/T SE 4 spd car after all & the only one with that color combo know to exist
so it come to the engine ... my #s engine is gone so it will have the wrong engine no matter what I do , so ...... do I find a 69 #383 block & do it stock , or do the 438 " stroker in the 383 block .... or use a 400 block , I have a killer 250 casting sitting & di the 451 stroker build , this was my first choice as it still looks like a 383 !! Or go big & do the 512 /440 build , I have all the parts sitiing to do the 512 as I was going to put it into the Charger ...... what to do ?? I made my mind up at the machine shop , I had the parts for the 451 except pistons & all the parts for the 512 , I had not located a 69 383 block though !!
I was going to do the 8 3/4 until I got it out of th ecar ... it was in bad condition , so find another housing or just build a dana , easy choice , with the power the stroker will make it is a no brainer to build a dana for it , sure it is not original , but it can be swapped back in in minutes , I have the longer driveshaft still !!