Engine swap should I go 360 or 383

[Dads300]

I wouldn’t take the one from the poly because a) the pans might be different depths, and b) if you aren’t going to need the poly for anything else you could sell it as a running engine and recoup some money.
Travis..

 

[bigfury3]

Got my 360 today brout it home, happily surprised it has a nice 4 barrel carb and a aluminum Edelbrock manifold. Now time to start pulling of all the crap on top like the AC compressor etc. and start braking it done for rebuild.

 

[bigfury3]

So upon further inspection has an Edelbrock performer intake and a Carter AFB 623cfm carburetor which I will rebuild/refurbish so that saves me couple hundred bucks I I can spend on more parts. Was a good score for $500 '76 360 with 50,000 miles on it and I got to hear it run before I pulled it also looks clean through the valve covers no sludge. I'm gonna start stripping it next weekend will keep posting update as I go.

 

[furious70]

Forgive me I forget, but why are you pulling it down and not just running it as is?

 

[bigfury3]

Forgive me I forget, but why are you pulling it down and not just running it as is?

I'm just cleaning it up doing some minor things to it to quicken it up and make sure it'll be reliable as I plan to use my fury as a daily driver. It has things I need to pull off like the after market AC compressor and a couple other things.