Wow, that took me way too long to figure out that reference!!! I'll try to remember that one! That's a pretty good analogy. Thanks for watching and commenting!
Your channel is my absolute hands down above all favorite. Can't stop rewatching everything. Your channel deserves 100,000,000+ subs. Not only do you actually teach and share your awesome doggo with everyone, but your humor makes it the perfect combination. Keep being awesome.
As others agree, the 283 is a great engine! Friend had a s10 blazer with one, it was surprisingly docile when cruising around, but man it ripped when you opened up the Carter 4barrel!
I inherited a 1965 283. It was rusted solid with heads off the engine. That was summer 2019 and now that little motor is like new again. Cost me about $1600 for machine shop work and most of the rotating assembly parts. I have another $1000 in it for Edelbrock intake, carb, HEI, water pump, fuel pump, pulleys, valve covers. Looks sweet on my engine stand. I have not tried to start it yet. I will soon. Bored .060 to a 292 cid.
@@adamcarfield7201 I'd 2nd that. 327 for the win. At least from Chevrolet the 327 was one of the highest HP small blocks at 375HP available for a production car . The double hump heads ( and ya, I have in my garage a set of small valve double humps ) with the Duntov 30 cam. too bad they didn't put that cam in the subsequent 350 engine. But as it is, you and I certainly can. my 2nd gen Pontiac Trans Am has a reasonable facsimile of the LT-1 350 in it. based on the 350HP/327 cam with 11:1 forged pistons. been that way for almost 30 years now. The Poncho purists foam at the mouth that I have a sbc in mine.
We put a slightly built 350 in a starfire same car just used the monza v8 stuff and it was a screamer being so light any more motor and i swear the car woulda self destructed.lol after some time one door got hard to open and the other hard to close so something was going on that motor got transplanted to a camaro for the remainder of its time on earth ..
I remember swapping 460's in my dad's '78 bronco. Seeing those flames shoot out and feeling the thumping on my chest was the most amazing thing I ever experienced. That is untill I went to my first top fuel drag race!
I have a '55 Chevy 4-door for 44 years. My Grandfather purchased it new, It came with the 235 c i 6 cyl. I swapped it out with a 283 when I got it, It was a daily driver for over 20 years. I then overhauled it in 2003 with a mild street cam, electronic ignition, Edelbrock carb and headers and all new interior and blue exterior. I've only put 800 miles since the overhaul but still runs great.
I have a 1979 350 xxxx010 block on my engine stand. went through a rapid cam/lifter failure. filled itself full of metal. stiffened up its wrist pins. went to retrofit roller for it. sick and tired of flat tappet / current oil compatibility problems. the aluminum heads are good for a solid 400HP and the cam should be a good match. Looks like going away from stock log cast iron manifolds, headerrs on order for my square body 3/4 ton 4x4 NP203 equipped "1980" which I did paint/body/ mechanical 15 years ago. bondo and fiberglass does cover a multitude of sins. I gave thought to putting a stroker kit in it, but I don't have the skills to clearance the block properly. but if push comes to shove, I'd rather do a 372. ( 4.125 bore , 3.48 stroke )
I use to race with small block Chey back in the day, 60's to 1975, lots of fun with it then. cheap and easy, we didn't have all the real fancy things you can buy for engines today.
@@tomrogers9467 Well, the thing did come out in 75' during the gas crunch. But they're plentiful and cheap. Someone on a budget can surely build a relatively stronger 305. Ofcourse it'd never have the potential of a LT1/LS/aftermarket 350. Have you tried hopping it up a little? Interested in hearing your experience
That is a very clean engine and I love it. I just recently got an old very clean 302 Ford engine came off of an 85 Mustang GT and it is a little bit of a high performance. I am putting it in my 86 Ford F150 4x4 with 6" lift.
I was stationed at a NATO post in the Netherlands from 1968-70 in the U S Army and at our motorpool we had 67 Chevy cars with a 283 three speed stick and would take trips in Germany autobahns going speeds of 120 mph flat to the floor mile after mile and many German cars would blink their lights to pass us. Gosh that was so much fun. In Belgium we would go 100 in a three line highway the middle lane was passing for both side and would play chicken blink our lights who would pull over first. We called it suicide lane. Give us a 283 let the Army test them. Never blew a engine. We all lived to tell our stories. We would smoked those tires in Brussels Belgium and the people thought someone had a accident. If we got caught with all this stuff we would be in the stockade for life. I am sure they had to put on new tires every month. True story it was like a vacation over there. Great people great memories.
I love the 283 , had one in a 55 Bel Air Way back in 1969 . Lot of guys put 3/4 race cam , Power Pack heads and 4 barrel on them . And always the drag plugs exhaust outlets behind the front wheel. Had to have a hand made black bar front bumper and shackles to raise the rear end , airplane had to come off the hood , damn those were the days.
Wow! That sure is one clean and rebuilt engine! Definitely something I'm not used too on this channel. The good thing is, you basically have a clean slate to work with; no Ralph Nader jobs, nothing. That'll make it a quick engine swap into something when the time comes for it!
haha, when you were talking about the distributor i was thrown back to the time i replaced the cap on my 91 dakota 318. colder than frig, on lunch, got it done, went to crank, nothing.... spent another 2 and a half hours after work (even colder) to realize grandpa put my distributor in 180* backwards and (assuming the motor was already in the pickup when he rebuilt it) decided "screw it" and plumbed the wires in *backwards* ... another half hour deciphering what order to put the wires in and i was back on the road
Get a coil with built in resistance. No need for a ballast resistor. I don't know how much you paid for it, but it was worth it. Especially with that cool trailer setup.
The 2 bolt holes in the intake are for a power steering unit on the drivers side and the other side is for an alternator, or air conditioning compressor or both.
I liked it. Hook the radiator up and start it and hook it up to your truck and drive around town with that v8 running with the open headers, Can you imagine the look on there faces! Hilarious 😂
Love that engine test stand. I have a build of one in *slow* progress. It irritates me to install an engine just to find something wacky that requires pulling it back out. Do an initial runin on a stand and once you know its all good. in it goes. That carb looks more like the 2G which is half a 4G carb and not the DualJet which is half a Quadrajet. I cracked open my Rochester manual to check. I do have a Dualjet around here someplace which my son lifted out of a pickn' pull yard. There are 2 versions of the 2 bbl carb. one with the 2bbls without the secondaries. and another with a 1 bbl primary, with 1 bbl secondary. I learned how to tune the QuadraJet late 80's for fuel economy and power .
I got a nomad been on off love relationship, professional rebuild,283 sitting next to the wagon for several years,asap going make a custom engine stand get it fire up with P.G.transmistion When I get it running I'll put several hours breaking it in ,then I'll drop her in the 57 wagon its alive!wish I seen this ideal years eailer would of motivated me sooner,
A great cheep hot rod 283, a cool modification for 283 gets a lot of hp put 305 intake valves on 283 heads and match ports use stock 350 hydraulic cam don’t over carb
The old 283 are starting to be hard to come by I use to have a couple of them but I drove them hard till they had big ol windows in them with a nice view of the rod poking out back when I was young and dumb
They used to be throw away engines! And they haven't made them for 50 years so they're getting more and more difficult to find. Good thing they made millions of them!
That is Cool, I Have a 1963 283 all stock, Has a 2 bbl carb ,hooker headers, Dual point, water pump, Made my own motor run stand from a cart you can get at Northern tool, Small gas tank from 5 h.p. motor from old snow blower, It looks so neat on stand. When I have it out in drive way people stop to see how I built this, The cooling is from my 57 chevy, I have under 200.00 dollars to build cart stand, The paper work says it will hold up to 1.400 pounds I am not going to find that out..The cart is used for plants at plant stores or for bags of rock. I put down 2 cut 3/4 ply wood sheets, It is wat to cool...
Dwell affects timing but timing does not affect dwell dwell is how long the points stay open in relation to crankshaft rotation its few and far between youll see points most like myself once the hei came out in 73 - 74 it was all over for the points i cant even count how many points distributors i swapped out for an hei it was like night and day often times due to bad points or dwell being off considerably condensers bad etc points wear and electronic ignition. Does not so its just more accurate for a lot longer it really never goes out of dwell so the other parts wear like centrifugal weights for timing they need to be replaced and make sure they work right .. Sorry rambling smoke another one lol
Yeah coil for ea cylinder fired by the crank and cam sensors timing is all comtrolled by the computer nothing is mechanical anymore .. You can run a newer style L.S. engine w a carb w an msd type igntion system that uses the two sensors and you can set your own timing curve w a laptop its all changed. From what it used to be ..
Just paid $700 for a t bucket project that was left for dead. Has the victor 2 ram jet intake and dual carb setup. Haven’t checked into it too much but I’m hoping it’s been punched out to a 301. Wish me luck!!
This thing is AWESOME! Would make a great vintage looking home made log splitter like the one Carchaeology showed in his vid yesterday? I got an old VHS clip from TV of cool machines with a HEMI in it... besides the old air raid sirens I recently saw.
4 barrel, headers, maybe some 1.6 roller rockers for more lift, and ya probably got a nice little 300hp, daily driver engine that would also be really nice in a rat rod, T bucket, Model A, etc.
283 is/was a great powerplant...327 a nod in the right direction....but gather 'round children, if you want to see a sbc play, the 302 was the gig to have....more rare than a street hemi and way faster out of the hole.
302 was the best of both worlds put together. 283 crank with 327 bore!! Also the first hot rodded Chevy small blocks were punched out thick wall casting 1957 283 blocks that were punched out 0.125in over to 4.00in bore, same as 327, they called them 301s but in reality they are the same 302!!
You said that 2jets are half of a quadrajet, but the 2gs are actually closer to the carburetor that came before the quadrajet, the 4jet. Nobody runs them on anything before 1966 but the insides are almost exactly the same as a 2g mirrored. Half a quadrajet would be the dualjet. And at least you’re not running one of those things lol
I have a 1957 or 58 canister filter front cross over exhaust 283 in a 46 f1 Ford pu ....got it that way...gonna pull it n put a Windsor in its place along with 8.8rear axle it has bow tie rear end in it still
Nice little motor. No bolt holes in the heads till I think 69 but those are probably 305 heads 601s hopefully but it doesn't matter either way im just saying. Nice looking old-school runner for anything 👌
heres a thought..put this 283 into that studabaker ..make it a rat rod sort of ride,fix up the body panels.re upholster the interior a bit and a 4 speed.
Ran one in my late model on clay track as a temporary twisted that little engine to 10 thousand rpm on back straights. Didn't win but took 3rd.and it never grenaded
290 horsepower Thanks to an optional Rochester fuel-injection package, Chevy's 283 made 283 horsepower, the company's first engine to make one horsepower per cubic inch of displacement. A year later, Chevy was able to get 290 horsepower from the 283 small-block.
Ford & Chevy have the same physical timing order, but number the cylinders differently. If you put wires on your Ford exactly as you would a Chevy & counting the cylinders as Chevy does, it will be correct.
Two exhausts, eight spark plugs and three pounds of fun. More gooder Chevrolet!
Wow, that took me way too long to figure out that reference!!! I'll try to remember that one! That's a pretty good analogy. Thanks for watching and commenting!
2..8..3..@@MortskeRepair
Really diggin the combination of a trailer /run stand! That's a great idea
one of the best engines chevy ever made!
My grandpa left me his 73 stepside with a 283 and Muncie 4speed. I can’t wait to get it going. That was his project he never got to finish.
Awesome!
Your channel is my absolute hands down above all favorite. Can't stop rewatching everything. Your channel deserves 100,000,000+ subs. Not only do you actually teach and share your awesome doggo with everyone, but your humor makes it the perfect combination. Keep being awesome.
That trailer is freakin awesome
As others agree, the 283 is a great engine! Friend had a s10 blazer with one, it was surprisingly docile when cruising around, but man it ripped when you opened up the Carter 4barrel!
283's are amazing engines that can tach lots of RPM's. Cool find. I'm building one of those stands. So cool.
Arguably the best engine GM ever produced prior to the LS. They are sweet runnin little dudes.
Sure are!
283 and 327
I like your test stand,anybody that likes building engines needs one of those.
Me too, painted, that stand will go ANYWHERE you want and looks great for rebuilding your project. Love it !!!
Your dog looks so lovable. A friend forever. He did not care for the engine run..lol
I had a 64 Chev Bal-air. Went over 100,000 miles. Vacations back and forth to work. You name it, it did it.
Nice!
I inherited a 1965 283. It was rusted solid with heads off the engine. That was summer 2019 and now that little motor is like new again. Cost me about $1600 for machine shop work and most of the rotating assembly parts. I have another $1000 in it for Edelbrock intake, carb, HEI, water pump, fuel pump, pulleys, valve covers. Looks sweet on my engine stand. I have not tried to start it yet. I will soon. Bored .060 to a 292 cid.
What heads are u gonna use on your 60 over 283
i wouldn't be able to sleep at night, you gotta run that baby!!
That’s a strong motor! Great compression and ignition! Go figure
Sounds sweet. Cant go wrong with a 283, i think those and 327's are the best chevy engines they sound the best.
How do you not have ten times the amount of subscribers? This is a top notch channel.
Thanks a bunch for the kind words Joey! Maybe we'll get there someday!
Best engine Chevrolet ever made.
327 is a close 2nd if not a notch better lol
@@adamcarfield7201 I'd 2nd that. 327 for the win. At least from Chevrolet the 327 was one of the highest HP small blocks at 375HP available for a production car . The double hump heads ( and ya, I have in my garage a set of small valve double humps ) with the Duntov 30 cam. too bad they didn't put that cam in the subsequent 350 engine. But as it is, you and I certainly can. my 2nd gen Pontiac Trans Am has a reasonable facsimile of the LT-1 350 in it. based on the 350HP/327 cam with 11:1 forged pistons. been that way for almost 30 years now. The Poncho purists foam at the mouth that I have a sbc in mine.
I could listen to that all day.
Best combo I have seen is a bone stock 283 in a Chevy Monza. The short stroke in that light car was awesome and quick. Thanks for the vid!
I bet it would be fun!
We put a slightly built 350 in a starfire same car just used the monza v8 stuff and it was a screamer being so light any more motor and i swear the car woulda self destructed.lol after some time one door got hard to open and the other hard to close so something was going on that motor got transplanted to a camaro for the remainder of its time on earth ..
Oooh! I see that '53 in the background! I'm glad you liked my suggestion and I'm even happier to see that one inside getting ready for a make-over! :D
Thanks again!
One of the best Chevy engine's ever made in my opinion.
No doubt!
I'm a Ford guy but I'd say for power and mileage 283 is hard to be.
Wish i had just an ounce of your knowledge and tools. Great video
You'll get there some day! Thanks!
Life is good with a good running 283!
I remember swapping 460's in my dad's '78 bronco. Seeing those flames shoot out and feeling the thumping on my chest was the most amazing thing I ever experienced. That is untill I went to my first top fuel drag race!
Good stuff!
My buddy had one in an early Vega another had one in a 69 M.G B WEEEEEE! Man I miss those days.Thanks for the memories. Happy days!
That sounds like a hoot!!
Love the 283, they are a great little engine! I have three of them, one is built and waiting for me to finish it, the other two need to be rebuilt.
You're hoarding them all from the rest of us!! Thanks for watching!
I have a '55 Chevy 4-door for 44 years. My Grandfather purchased it new, It came with the 235 c i 6 cyl. I swapped it out with a 283 when I got it, It was a daily driver for over 20 years. I then overhauled it in 2003 with a mild street cam, electronic ignition, Edelbrock carb and headers and all new interior and blue exterior. I've only put 800 miles since the overhaul but still runs great.
That's cool you still have his car!
@@MortskeRepair Yes
That rig is a work of art , many Thanks for showing it
Glad you enjoyed it Gary!
Had a 63 Belair with one of these it would cruise at 90 mph all day, absolutely bulletproof.
The 283 is my favorite engine, got one being rebuilt in my shed right now for fun. good video
I have a 1979 350 xxxx010 block on my engine stand. went through a rapid cam/lifter failure. filled itself full of metal. stiffened up its wrist pins. went to retrofit roller for it. sick and tired of flat tappet / current oil compatibility problems. the aluminum heads are good for a solid 400HP and the cam should be a good match. Looks like going away from stock log cast iron manifolds, headerrs on order for my square body 3/4 ton 4x4 NP203 equipped "1980" which I did paint/body/ mechanical 15 years ago. bondo and fiberglass does cover a multitude of sins. I gave thought to putting a stroker kit in it, but I don't have the skills to clearance the block properly. but if push comes to shove, I'd rather do a 372. ( 4.125 bore , 3.48 stroke )
@@blair79bear38 always use a zinc additive with flat tappet. A bottle of STP works good
Very useful package for you! The trailer stand looks to be super useful for you as well. Clever item!
Someone put a lot of work into that stand!! I'm glad I found it! Thanks for watching!
I use to race with small block Chey back in the day, 60's to 1975, lots of fun with it then.
cheap and easy, we didn't have all the real fancy things you can buy for engines today.
Man that’s a clean one I can’t wait to build mine !!!
Me too i have factory 69 307/175 horsepower and will rebuild then install in 80 malibu next month
@@quesross9907 oh hell ya!
Great engine. I just found a 1959 283 and power glide. Four barrel engine too. Looks like it hasn't been apart.
That’s awesome!
Man. Maybe the 305 would become a rare a pleasant site one day. LOL I love em', as abundant as they are. A beautiful find! enjoy it
My ‘79 Camaro with the 305 was a gutless wonder. Swapped it for a 350 after three years.
@@tomrogers9467 Well, the thing did come out in 75' during the gas crunch. But they're plentiful and cheap. Someone on a budget can surely build a relatively stronger 305. Ofcourse it'd never have the potential of a LT1/LS/aftermarket 350. Have you tried hopping it up a little? Interested in hearing your experience
What a good dog / this dog loves his master
That is a very clean engine and I love it. I just recently got an old very clean 302 Ford engine came off of an 85 Mustang GT and it is a little bit of a high performance. I am putting it in my 86 Ford F150 4x4 with 6" lift.
283 was bulletproof! OG legend!
A quick shim in the starter would fix that loud cranking, typical small block Chevy mess lol glad to see the 283 getting some love
I'm actually working on a video for that. I had never had to shim one until this summer. Thanks for watching and commenting!
@Ken Switzer What mess?
@Ken Switzer Great engines! Thanks for watching and commenting Ken!
I was stationed at a NATO post in the Netherlands from 1968-70 in the U S Army and at our motorpool we had 67 Chevy cars with a 283 three speed stick and would take trips in Germany autobahns going speeds of 120 mph flat to the floor mile after mile and many German cars would blink their lights to pass us. Gosh that was so much fun. In Belgium we would go 100 in a three line highway the middle lane was passing for both side and would play chicken blink our lights who would pull over first. We called it suicide lane. Give us a 283 let the Army test them. Never blew a engine. We all lived to tell our stories. We would smoked those tires in Brussels Belgium and the people thought someone had a accident. If we got caught with all this stuff we would be in the stockade for life. I am sure they had to put on new tires every month. True story it was like a vacation over there. Great people great memories.
Good times
Love that run stand
It's a real masterpiece!
I have a rat 70 gmc that that beautiful 283 would mould right into!
what a good dog you have ....
Sure is!
Awesome find! So cool seeing these old engines come to life
I was pretty stoked to walk into an estate sale and find something like this sitting around! The thrill of the hunt! Thanks for watching!
@@MortskeRepair I can only imagine 😁
@@therandomchannel2022 Even a blind squirrel finds a nut every now and again!
@@MortskeRepair That's right lol
I love the 283 , had one in a 55 Bel Air Way back in 1969 . Lot of guys put 3/4 race cam , Power Pack heads and 4 barrel on them . And always the drag plugs exhaust outlets behind the front wheel. Had to have a hand made black bar front bumper and shackles to raise the rear end , airplane had to come off the hood , damn those were the days.
Heck yeah!
Excellent also awesome find and have fun time with 283 V8 4barrel to!
Thanks for watching! This one has a 2GC Rochester on it. One of my favorite carbs.
Been watching you videos since you brought that 60 impala home and got it running YOURE A GREAT TALENT KEEP IT UP BUDDY 👍👍👍👍👍
Thanks much for the kind words Mark!
I to enjoyed that video, perhaps the best of the bunch.
@@blair79bear38 Glad you enjoyed it!
Giving new meaning to a roller.
Sweet motor. Wish I could find stuff like that at estate sales.
They're out there!
Gotta love the ole 283's getting hard to find around here
Only been 50 years since they made them! Thanks for watching!
Wow!... A Good Find
Yeah I did alright on this buy. Thanks for watching!
Just putting my 283 in today. Ready to run it..
It sounds like a mild cam in her , but maybe it’s the audio on your camera . I like the 283 & 327’s in front of a m22 rock crusher !
She's a ripper!
I Like em in front of SM420 and SM-465😜 but i agree, they are damn good little mouse motors!
Oldie but a goodie
Ya can never go wrong with a SBC!
Wow! That sure is one clean and rebuilt engine! Definitely something I'm not used too on this channel. The good thing is, you basically have a clean slate to work with; no Ralph Nader jobs, nothing. That'll make it a quick engine swap into something when the time comes for it!
That homemade engine cart is a keeper. Comes in handy for engine builds.
The stand is the best part!
haha, when you were talking about the distributor i was thrown back to the time i replaced the cap on my 91 dakota 318. colder than frig, on lunch, got it done, went to crank, nothing....
spent another 2 and a half hours after work (even colder) to realize grandpa put my distributor in 180* backwards and (assuming the motor was already in the pickup when he rebuilt it) decided "screw it" and plumbed the wires in *backwards* ... another half hour deciphering what order to put the wires in and i was back on the road
Don't you hate when someone offers to "help" you out?!? Ha! Thanks for the story!
Finally an engine worth your time! 😊
Indeed!
Dad had a 64 Chevy II 283 2 barrel 3 on the tree I would love to have one best little small block next to 327 in my opinion
Awesome find,..cant wait to see where you use it....Love that text trailer....mount your starter box rite on there.
Thanks 👍
Get a coil with built in resistance. No need for a ballast resistor. I don't know how much you paid for it, but it was worth it. Especially with that cool trailer setup.
Well Bud they havent finished it up but at least yu can set it rite will be fun to see ya get her running later Rev
Thanks for watching Steven!
Great motor
....V8 Vega...ruff on rear end
Right on
S0. Damm cool I've been a Chevy guy for 60 years thanks for the video
It's always fun to bring something back to life! Thanks for watching!
I love engine start videos like this!
Glad to hear it!
We put one in a 50's V-Drive Ski Boat WITH the powerglide.....Pop! the skiers out of the hole than shift into Drive and cruise. It was brilliant!
That would be something I'd love to find!
That’s trippy seeing a clean old engine😂
Not often around here!
The 2 bolt holes in the intake are for a power steering unit on the drivers side and the other side is for an alternator, or air conditioning compressor or both.
Good to know!
I liked it. Hook the radiator up and start it and hook it up to your truck and drive around town with that v8 running with the open headers, Can you imagine the look on there faces! Hilarious 😂
Half a Quadrajet was a Dualjet, I think you have a 2GC on the 283. Awesome channel! Keep the great content coming!
Thanks! Will do!
Duffy
He's such a good boy!!
That's a pretty sharp looking 283
The previous owner sure did shine her up!
It might not be the biggest motor at all but it's a sharp dressed motor lol
@@johnweeks5614 Nothing to scoff at here!! Good little engines!
Sweet find
Got yourself a heck of a deal whatever you pay for that little 283 Atman they have one of the best Motors
Yeah I’m very happy with my purchase.
Love that engine test stand. I have a build of one in *slow* progress. It irritates me to install an engine just to find something wacky that requires pulling it back out. Do an initial runin on a stand and once you know its all good. in it goes. That carb looks more like the 2G which is half a 4G carb and not the DualJet which is half a Quadrajet. I cracked open my Rochester manual to check. I do have a Dualjet around here someplace which my son lifted out of a pickn' pull yard. There are 2 versions of the 2 bbl carb. one with the 2bbls without the secondaries. and another with a 1 bbl primary, with 1 bbl secondary. I learned how to tune the QuadraJet late 80's for fuel economy and power .
These stands are handy for breaking stuff in and knowin just what you got!
I got a nomad been on off love relationship, professional rebuild,283 sitting next to the wagon for several years,asap going make a custom engine stand get it fire up with P.G.transmistion When I get it running I'll put several hours breaking it in ,then I'll drop her in the 57 wagon its alive!wish I seen this ideal years eailer would of motivated me sooner,
you remind me of Derek from vise grip garage so much
I get that a lot. Beards, accents, mechanics, witty humor. I've been compared to worse!! Ha! Thanks for watching!
@@MortskeRepair You're an original, Mortske!
@@landengreen6982 Thanks much Landen!
A great cheep hot rod 283, a cool modification for 283 gets a lot of hp put 305 intake valves on 283 heads and match ports use stock 350 hydraulic cam don’t over carb
The old 283 are starting to be hard to come by I use to have a couple of them but I drove them hard till they had big ol windows in them with a nice view of the rod poking out back when I was young and dumb
They used to be throw away engines! And they haven't made them for 50 years so they're getting more and more difficult to find. Good thing they made millions of them!
that was grate thank you
Thanks for watching!
Super cool stand!
Thanks!
That is Cool, I Have a 1963 283 all stock, Has a 2 bbl carb ,hooker headers, Dual point, water pump, Made my own motor run stand from a cart you can get at Northern tool, Small gas tank from 5 h.p. motor from old snow blower, It looks so neat on stand. When I have it out in drive way people stop to see how I built this, The cooling is from my 57 chevy, I have under 200.00 dollars to build cart stand, The paper work says it will hold up to 1.400 pounds I am not going to find that out..The cart is used for plants at plant stores or for bags of rock. I put down 2 cut 3/4 ply wood sheets, It is wat to cool...
That's awesome!
Hey Man. Cool buy. I hope it all works out for ya. Thanks for sharing.👍👍🍁
I took a bit of a gamble on a mystery engine but I think I'll do fine on it. Thanks for watching!
I remember my first car, '66 Bel Air, had a sweet running 283. The dwell was 30 degrees and the idle was 650. That much I remember about the motor.
Great engines!
Dwell affects timing but timing does not affect dwell dwell is how long the points stay open in relation to crankshaft rotation its few and far between youll see points most like myself once the hei came out in 73 - 74 it was all over for the points i cant even count how many points distributors i swapped out for an hei it was like night and day often times due to bad points or dwell being off considerably condensers bad etc points wear and electronic ignition. Does not so its just more accurate for a lot longer it really never goes out of dwell so the other parts wear like centrifugal weights for timing they need to be replaced and make sure they work right .. Sorry rambling smoke another one lol
@@glennmanchester9151 Lot of great info there Glenn! Points have definitely gone by the wayside! Now it's all coil on plug designs!
Yeah coil for ea cylinder fired by the crank and cam sensors timing is all comtrolled by the computer nothing is mechanical anymore .. You can run a newer style L.S. engine w a carb w an msd type igntion system that uses the two sensors and you can set your own timing curve w a laptop its all changed. From what it used to be ..
@@glennmanchester9151 Pretty wild stuff they do!
Good job 👍
I love Buick 1955,56,57
Just paid $700 for a t bucket project that was left for dead. Has the victor 2 ram jet intake and dual carb setup. Haven’t checked into it too much but I’m hoping it’s been punched out to a 301. Wish me luck!!
Sounds like a good deal!
This thing is AWESOME! Would make a great vintage looking home made log splitter like the one Carchaeology showed in his vid yesterday?
I got an old VHS clip from TV of cool machines with a HEMI in it... besides the old air raid sirens I recently saw.
Nothing like running off open heads!! That's pretty cool they're doing stuff like that with these old engines!
4 barrel, headers, maybe some 1.6 roller rockers for more lift, and ya probably got a nice little 300hp, daily driver engine that would also be really nice in a rat rod, T bucket, Model A, etc.
Make a real ripper out of the little 283!
Check out that run stand. Thats pretty neat.
A piece of art!
283 is/was a great powerplant...327 a nod in the right direction....but gather 'round children, if you want to see a sbc play, the 302 was the gig to have....more rare than a street hemi and way faster out of the hole.
302 was the best of both worlds put together. 283 crank with 327 bore!! Also the first hot rodded Chevy small blocks were punched out thick wall casting 1957 283 blocks that were punched out 0.125in over to 4.00in bore, same as 327, they called them 301s but in reality they are the same 302!!
Thats an awesome trailer. I'd keep that together. Recently got into your channel. You do a lot of hard work....
The cart is flippin awesome! Hey thanks much!
Sounds better than my daily driver good buy
You just need to run that DD straight off the manifolds like this and she'll sound great!
@@MortskeRepair it's cool with me but the local sherriff's already have me one warning and one ticket I wont go for 3 lol
@@budgetbuilds1833 Apparently the neighbors frown upon that stuff too. Pshhh, what a bunch of squares!
You said that 2jets are half of a quadrajet, but the 2gs are actually closer to the carburetor that came before the quadrajet, the 4jet. Nobody runs them on anything before 1966 but the insides are almost exactly the same as a 2g mirrored. Half a quadrajet would be the dualjet. And at least you’re not running one of those things lol
Ahh gotcha. Well 2 is half of 4 so that's what I call them!!
Exactly right. That was a 2G he had. it came before the QuadraJet which is much different carb. The DualJet is the version that is half a QuadraJet.
I have a 1957 or 58 canister filter front cross over exhaust 283 in a 46 f1 Ford pu ....got it that way...gonna pull it n put a Windsor in its place along with 8.8rear axle it has bow tie rear end in it still
Nice little motor. No bolt holes in the heads till I think 69 but those are probably 305 heads 601s hopefully but it doesn't matter either way im just saying. Nice looking old-school runner for anything 👌
Thanks for the info! And for watching!
heres a thought..put this 283 into that studabaker ..make it a rat rod sort of ride,fix up the body panels.re upholster the interior a bit and a 4 speed.
Now we're making a plan!! Just need to find that 4 speed! Maybe a straight axle!
@@MortskeRepair ...maybe another estate sale in a diff county...auto store auction..never know
@@mikeschuring423 I'll get to looking!
Ran one in my late model on clay track as a temporary twisted that little engine to 10 thousand rpm on back straights. Didn't win but took 3rd.and it never grenaded
Nice!
290 horsepower
Thanks to an optional Rochester fuel-injection package, Chevy's 283 made 283 horsepower, the company's first engine to make one horsepower per cubic inch of displacement. A year later, Chevy was able to get 290 horsepower from the 283 small-block.
Good stuff!
I think the top dog was a 61 Corvette 283 with 315hp. Great engine!
Ford & Chevy have the same physical timing order, but number the cylinders differently. If you put wires on your Ford exactly as you would a Chevy & counting the cylinders as Chevy does, it will be correct.
Sweet!
I k ow everyone does the LS swaps. But this would be so awesome in my Bravada ( with and HEI if course )
That would be interesting!