For a substantial number of engines made over the course of automobile history, most of them bear the name of the car company that produced them, like Chevrolet or Ford. After all, it makes it easy to ...

Straight off the bat, it's the engine sizes. The Mopar 383 V8 displaces 383 cubic inches (6.3 liters), sitting between the 340 (5.6 liters) and 440 (7.2 liters). The 340, 383, and 440 all are part of ...

The Mopar 440 saw its way into several cars in the late 1960s, as did its high-performance variants, like the 440 Magnum, 440 TNT, 440 Super Commando, and the most powerful of the bunch, the 440 Six ...

Mopar engines were referred to as "wedge" engines because they used wedge-shaped combustion chambers; this was different from Chrysler's Hemi big-block engines, which were referred to as "Hemi" (as in ...

While offering nearly similar V8 engines on paper, the Mopar 383 V8 offered a larger bore and stroke that boosted horsepower on many muscle cars.

Like most things related to the muscle car era, the Plymouth 440 Super Commando big-block V8 engine roared to life in the late 1960s and faded away in the early 1970s. Chrysler produced standard ...

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