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- 66patrick66 April 2006
engine information
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My fiance and I bought a 1967 Chrysler Newport, the gentleman that we bought it from, said that the engine was a 440 but all the information I have found on the internet and in the book says it is a 383. If anyone knows how I can find out what size it is please let me know. Thank you for any help that you can provide for me.
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What is the fifth character of the VIN??? A "G" is a 383 2-bbl'; an "H" represents a 383 4-bbl. A "K" is a 440. In the Newports, the 383 was far more common than a 440.
A 440 engine is wider than a 383, and will have a flat machined pad in the front of the engine, next to and behind the water pump housing. It'll have 440 stamped into it and probably have other characters stamped , as well.
www.nybclub.org for more info, specifically on Newyorkers but also has Newport and Imperial info, too. Good forum there, too. Lots of daily activity there."The time has come", the Walrus said, "to speak of many things. Of shoes and ships and sealing wax, of cabbages and kings. And why the sea is boiling hot,
And whether pigs have wings..."
