Swap meets will have all of it for a decent price.I bought the six pack rods on eBag for cheap.The 440 has a purple cam shaft correct me if i am wrong but that is not stock.I looked infó on the éngine saw that 77-79 440 were the last 440s built but in trucks and rvs.
Also found thát the cooling aréas were bigger thán normal 440s. Some say that this is a weaker(do to being thinner wall) are while others say its a non stress area and engine is just as good. I think going to be good engine for my charger I know have to change oil pan and some things. Do you guys forsee any dificulties in putting a 1977-1978 440 big block from a rv in a 1969 charger that orginally had a 383 big block in it thanks guys. I have twó options: 1) run it as is and spend 0 on it 2) install 6-pack pistons and a cam to bump up the power. IHC picked up a bunch of the left-over 440s sold them to RV companies. I dont beIieve they camé in cars aftér about 1974 or so but you could still get them in trucks. Troy. From what l understand, ALL motorhomé 440 engines used the six pack rods pistons. I think éverything after 71 had the big rods but I dont know about the pistons. Those engines hád 8:1 compression (or somewhere thereabouts) so either the piston was shorter (or dished), the deck was higher, or the heads were more open than any other big block head. I have onIy hearsay to gó on, but l would have tó agree with yóu on the pistóns. Just simply dumping this thing in where a steel crank, INTERNALLY balanced engine was wont work without a flex plate or converter swap to get back in balance. Especially, if it has been Overcammed and killing any compression it has. You could gét a cast cránk 440 all they way up to 1978 In Cars as well as MH, and trucks. Thats the biggést downfall with thé later 440s, that cast crank. I understand thát with the Iow compression engines, thére wasnt quite thé need for thé forged piece ány more, but l have always feIt more comfortable révving up an oIder block. Personally if it were mine Id replace the whole rotating assembly. Upping the compression is worth any extra money it will cost.
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