ya im switchin over to a carb, im thinkin of puttin on a quadrajet 4 barrel that my dad has sittin in the garage, but ill most likely end up puttin a holley truck avenger on there in the future, i have no idea about the whole block thing yet, all i know is that it is a 4 bolt main, with some performance mains, and it has been magnafluxed, its goin through the whole process. My dad knows the guy that's buildin the engine, and he said the last 383 that he built for a guy was makin about 400 horsepower on the engine dyno. Im not going to spend that kind of money, he told me for what i wanted id be makin around 350-375 horsepower. If he cant find a set of vortech heads, then where just goin to clean the ones that i have in my truck up and through those on there, the man said everything in this motor will be roller. I have to get some more details on it today. I just went down and talked to him for a bit, and saw the block. Boonman have you done anything to your 700-r4? i havnt really decided on the internals yet,
But i am most likely going to buy a rotating assembly from www.ohiocrank.com