01 Aug 97 09:31, Puleeeeze Brer JACK SCHWENDENER, Dooooon't trow 396 in dat 
der Briar Patch!
 JS>
 RW>> Not likly.  283's were hard pressed to make it to a 4" bore.  That'd
 RW>> be an 1 to bore out.  You'd need a perfectly cast block. I remember
 RW>> a lot of them go to 292, but hardly any 301's from 283's.  Some, but
 RW>> not many, and those were streetable due to the heat warping the thin
 RW>> cylinder walls.
 JS>
 JS> Sorry to disagree, but that's just not right. We used to routinely
 JS> make 301s out of 283s. (You would buy a 327 master kit, the
 JS> only additional cost was a small charge for the extra over bore.)
 JS> There were hundreds if not thousands of them running all over SoCal
 JS> in the '60s.
That's hard to believe.
 JS>  For a while at San Fernando drag strip they had a "301 in a '55
 JS> Chevy" class. The entire Junior Fuel class was designed around the
 JS> 283 punched to 301, although most guys went to a 327 with
 JS> a 283 crank when they became more available (in the mid- '60s),
I'd believe the 327 with 3" crank before I'd believe anyone would punch a 283 
and take that chance.
... Atheist having an orgasm: "Oh, Random! Oh, Chance!"
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