same car one year later with a 440 engine. both times accelerated from a standing start without high revs . Exhaust with Glasspacks : • Flowmaster vs Glasspac...
@@mikesteelheart Yah. I like the sound of moderately modded MOPAR and Ford more than the rest. The new cars are obviously faster but they really don't sound that good to me. None of them. BTW right now I have 3 bikes. The one I like the most overall? A '79 DT250 smoker, followed by the Triumph Triple then the classic Duc 1000.
@@KingCast65 It's because everything now is ultra refined with OHC's, VVT, and strict emissions. That's why a new Vette sounds so tame just idling. IMO nothing sounds better than an old OHV big block V8.
I was a factory driver, driving cars off the finish line for Dodge. It was in Fall 1971. I drove almost all the Chargers that were built there. They had a 340 or a 440. The 340 with 3-duces was a quick little Charger. The 440 with a 4-barrel was something else, better top end..... loved that job.
@@coreysharp9794 oh party foul. I liked 74 thru 76 Torino musta had 4 or 5 of em drove great! But the coolest idea there, is the factory magnum 500 wheels bolt right onto a roadrunner/gtx/charger!
383 is what I imagine to be the classic muscle car sound while the 440 sounds more like a performance model...I would go for the 383 just to listen to that burble all day long.
My first car at 16 in 1973 was a "68" Roadrunner. 383-auto. Had a blast in it. 2nd car was a "69" Mustang Fastback. 3rd car was a "69" Roadrunner 440-auto. in 1979. Had so much fun in the "69" burning rubber and hauling guitars, amps, and drums around from jam to jam. We live in the country and could hot rod and play music as loud as we wanted. Mopars, Marshall amps, Les Paul guitars. What a Trio
The 383 is a great motor more free reving like a small block with big block power and torque the best of both worlds, my dad has a 71 roadrunner with a 383 and a torqueflite, great car
I prefer the 440, it sounds more clunky, but much more menacing. The 383 sounds very nice, but also very smooth. I’d say the 383 is for traditional smoothed out hot rods with nice candy paint, and the 440 is for that “born to be wild” mad max style hot rod. Get me?
I had a 69 roadrunner 383 and a 68 GTX 440 when I was younger. Best cars I've ever owned. Wish I still had them. Very fast cars. Fastest in town. Use to race about every weekend on back roads. The good old days.
The weak spot on these cars in the day was the tires. They couldn't come close to getting that HP & torque to hook up. You either took off slow & built up, or, you smoked the tires for 3 blocks. Put today's tires on them & you have a different animal. And, no. No Hyundai would be toasting a properly tuned 383, or, 440...
I had a '69 383, same colors as this one, in early '80's. Had buckets and console and hood induction. Previous owner was using it for a winter beater, and the rear fenders were rusted out. Had it fixed and re-painted. Still have a pic somewhere with my 2 year old daughter sitting on the hood.
@@scottsmith1386 Coal does not pollute much really (Co2 is NOT pollution - look it up), but using electric energy is not that clean either. Just think of all the nasty stuff that a batteries is built of :)
If a guy could only go back into time. Back in 1970 I had bought a slightly used 1970 sublime green Super bee with a 383. It was manual no power steering or brakes and when I bought it it had 1,700 original miles on it. When I say it was like brand new I'm not kidding. But that little 383 was so fast! The paint was perfect on it and man I wish I had it today. They just don't make them like they used too. I know it wasn't the fastest car out there but I was a 3rd yr h.s. student that was pretty darned proud of my car. Thank you Dad. You were the best.
Years ago before kids, I put a 2bbl 383 in a Dart and with an LSD equipped 3.23s it would burnout in 1st no probs. Next I put a Thermoquad on the OEM 4bbl smog iron intake and in auto it would spin all through 1st, shift into 2nd still spinning, then stop spinning in 2nd and kickback down to 1st lol. It was hilarious. I then put a well worked over 440 into it and didn't like it much because it was a bit too brutal for 3.23s (I didn't want 3.9s because I like long trips) and put the 383 back in and put a single plane M1 on it, took the camshaft from the 440, the heavily modded 915 heads from the 440 and a used a recurved late electronic dizzy. It was a great fun car. I ended up converting the rear drums to discs and put new torsion bars in it and front and rear sway bars. There was not one day I didn't turn that thing 6700rpm and you could really throw it around. It handled quite well for what it was. Miss it.
In 1972, I had a 68 Roadrunner with a stock 383 and I swapped it for a built 440 ..30 over. The 440 was a beast and I couldn't afford the food and shoes for it. It's hard not to keep your heavy right foot off it. The best part of the Roadrunner was the horn.
Whew! Memories.... I had a co-worker in the late 70's that had a Super Bee with a 383....A neighbor that had a hemi cuda with the 4sp...The early 70's was a fun time to be a young teen with fast ass cars and motorcycles and lots and lots of lonely country roads...😉
When I was 8 years old (1975), my brother had a 1968 Plymouth roadrunner with a 383 & I can remember him scaring the shit of me many, many times in that car. And to an 8 year old, that horn was the coolest.
My first car was a 69 plymouth roadrunner with a 440. Awesome car and quick too. I bought it when I turned 18 and put all the bolt on i could on it. It was fast enough to surprise my mechanic. Chirp tires going into third gear with a packed car on the freeway..
@@faschwank My dad registered and insured his 70 RR 440+6 4 speed as a Belvedere to save on insurance. Fastest taxi cab around, lol. It was not a cab but that's what they were using for cabs at the time.
I remember going down the local straight stretch in a 440 six pack Super Bee doing about 110 mph, and a little bright yellow lotus passed us like we were sitting still. I will never forget just how fast that lotus was going on duggies stretch in little eldersville pa
John Crankshaft No vert’s with a Belvedere emblem. Just 2 door with the bolt in post and 4 door sedan. But yeah... the 2 doors were all the same, Belvedere, Satellite, Sport Satellite, road runner, and GTX.
I had a 1967 Dodge Coronet with a 383 in 1979-80 up at Lake Tahoe, CA. It has a posi rear end, and I put studded truck tires on it in the winter. The road up to our cabin was pretty steep and during snowstorms, while waiting on the county/city plows, we had to make a running start to make it up to the top. Not as many poeple had 4X4s back then, so lots of folks would get stuck trying to get up the hill to get home after work. One night coming home I came to the bottom of the hill, and there was a little Subaru 4X4 making attempts to get up it. I think it was a 1972 or 73 (when they were much smaller). I stopped and watched him/her make three attempts. I then flashed my lights, revved my 383 and blasted up to the top first try. Dodge 383, cabin on the hill at Tahoe, ski pass, life was . . . you know the rest!
This was our family car in the late 60's with a 383. Mom and Dad drove it to the tracks in southern Michigan. Disconnected the headers and threw on the slicks and away we went. Miss those times.
My first car was a '68 Roadrunner, 383 hypo. Bought in July '70 right after I graduated H.S, and sold it to a co-worker in Sept'71 when I was drafted. I LOVED that car. Wish I STILL had it...
Very subjective when it’s a sound comparison. Cam, muffler, header, head/compression etc variances make a big difference on both engines. Having owned both beginning in 1980, I can say both are awesome engines. The 440 just has the extra torque and often a slightly deeper rumble but at a fuel price. I have 3 440’s in my garage for a reason and the fuel cost is just so worth it.
The 383 in the video was over-cammed for the rear end gears. The milder cammed 440 was just right for those gears, I'm guessing they were around 3.23 to 1.
This is the kind of comments we need. Bless up! And godspeed. Me myself I'm 2-stroke dirtbike/enduro rider. Some car to get by the rainier days/loads of stuff and winter, I prefer MB w124, if I were any of you I'd get w124 E500 V8 or the Porsche/MB w124. They're starting to go for ridiculous prices+, and very tunable, more than most of us have head to drive on normals roads :)
Slant six Challenger, followed by a 73 Challenger 340 T/A, 1970 Cuda 383 4 speed, and then a 71 Runner 4 speed pistol grip Plum Crazy with white interior. Owned the Runner since 1986. Never had a 440 so my car life sucks? Right?
@@matthewdufur5489 i get exactly what you're saying, n naa man, you're not boring, I'd say you've had a fun driving life with those cars.. N hey, it's never too late to get a big block..
@@stevespencer6064 I would disagree on the Slant. It's very very reliable but that's about it. Getting any performance out of it is like pulling teeth. Plus with the non-crossflow heads and crazy long stroke, it's a bit inelegant. A 318 or 383 are also super reliable, but do also have excellent performance potential. The 383 especially is really made the way everything should be.
I know the video is about the car sound but I congratulate you on the beautiful shot, that endless road perspective bordered by tall trees leaves me dreaming of going away...
Love that sound. When I was a kid my father had a '68 Dodge Coronet with the 440/4brl, manual 4-speed. Totally white with a black bullet-shaped thing on the engine hood. Loved that car. It sounded like a roar when he jumped off the line in that thing.
Its not the same engine if that's what you are trying to say. You can hear the deeper sound at idle in the second clip which is a by product of more cubic inches. So I would say it was a 440. Yeah of course it will kill the tires, he didn't floor it, it was an acceleration run not a burnout contest.
They are both the same car smh. Nobody noticed the steel wheels with chrome lug nuts? Dead giveaway. It's a 69 1/2 Roadrunner, A12 option (440 6 pack). They even covered the tag in the second one so you wouldn't see the same tag number. Some ppl are so gullible.
Thank the good Lord we progressed or we would be hearing slow motion chirps through out Friday and Saturday nights relentlessly trying hard become relevant.
My good buddy's next door neighbor had a 383 Road Runner, not even a magnum and it was faster than my pal's 383 Magnum SuperBee. It pulled even with 440's as well, we thought at the time it was a rare engine that musta been near perfect right outa the factory.
I had a 1968 Dodge R/T 440 six packing 1968 . It was the reason my wife went out with me in 1968. 55 years 10 months and 18 days ago. She could hear my R/T purr from her classroom when I got to town.
Buddy in high school had a roadrunner with a 440 and a six pack. Car could flat out fly. My Z-28 and his roadrunner were really close top end but id always get him in the 1/4 mile. Miss you Brian, RIP
Those cars in high school!?!? When you were tiny little kids??? Boy you've lived in a rich man's bubble. Open your eyes and see the world outside your pampered lives.
I had a 69 Road Runner with a 383 but with a 4 speed, 3/4 race cam, headers and Mallery ignition. Turned out a little over 400HP. I could lite up my 12 inch tires for 300 feet with out trying. I did have traction bars and weight in the trunk. It was a solid 10 second car.
I bought my 69 Road Runner as a rolling chassis from a drag racer. The car came with nothing but a fresh 727 TF and the Dana 60. Spent almost every dime I made for a year and a half building a 440 I found in a junkyard and gave it pretty much the same treatment. That car ate everything it ever came up against for lunch with the exception of a 70 GTX with a Hemi.
I had a 70' RR with a 383 Mopar and Air Grabber. That thing would spin the tires all the way through 1st and halfway through 2nd. But like someone else said here, "if you're spinnin', you ain't winnin'". I wish I never got rid of that car...
In 1979 I learned how to drive behind the wheel of a 1973 Mustang Mach 1 in a cemetery. It was an automatic trans with the 351 quad carb in it. Those were some great times. 😎
The 383 magnum in my 70 Challenger RT was pretty close to the 440 shown here --- but of course it should have been since it used 440 magnum heads, cam etc. ..and would easily chirp the tires through the shifts
My 69 charger (back in 1985)😁 with a 10.25 .1 compression 383 magnum torqueflight & 4.56 was not easily beaten by any other car! Absolutely.......fast car!
Hmmm, back in the day when I had my stock '69 L78 SS Chevelle, Turbo-Hydramatic, posi trac, I had no problem eating RR's, Goats, Mustangs and 'Vettes in the 1/4 mile. Also had a 1963 Ford, red, Galaxie 500 2 door hardtop, 406 tri-power, 4 speed which I thought was fast for a heavy tank, but when I got that Chevelle I realized then what fast really was like.
To be honest back in the day when I owned my 69 RR 383, 4 spd I don't remember ever getting beat by a 440! To be honest the combo I was worried about was the little 340 A body'! To be honest I always thought the 383 was a better street motor than the 440 and in fact it was actually a large cubic inch small block with the stroke it had.
@@craigewen2878 them 68 and 69 340 a bodys were STOUT. Them two years are the cars that made the 340 legendary. 70 and up were kinda hit n miss but 68/69 a bodys were all a bunch of freaks.
I like 383. It's a better stoplight street motor. 0-80mph they're hard to beat. 80-130 is where a 440 shines. Even a lame cast crank smog 440 pulls like a freight train north of 100.
My first car. 74 charger with a 318. Buddy's mom wrecked her 63 Newport. I bought the 383 motor and trans for a 100 dollar bill. Got a 3 duece manifold from my uncle. When i got that thing tuned right, which took a while lol, nothing could catch me. That thing was a beautiful beast
in 1970 I bought a 1969 Dodge Dart GTS with a 383, 4 bbl, Hurst 4 speed, and not much else. I was stationed at Ft. Sill, OK. I put headers on it, then got sent to Germany. Took it home for storage but my Dad sold it and I never got to see what it could do. I think they're pretty rare, too.
I had more than a couple Mopars including a 68 Plymouth GTX and a 69 Roadrunner. While I never raced either at the dragstrip and both were bone stock they both felt about the same off the line. However at that 1-2 upshift my 68 definitely felt faster than the Roadrunner. I don't know if that was based on the torque of the 440 took over or what but it was noticeable. We're talking seat of the pants here so who knows.
I purchased a used 1969 RoadRunner in April 1973. It was yellow with a black vinyl roof. No AC or power brakes or power steering. Very basic. It did have an AM radio. I paid $900 for the car, and it was certainly in mint condition until I became the owner. My RR had the Hurst 4 speed shifter. I loved it. My high school friend had the 440 in his RoadRunner. I don't think his car accelerated any faster than my car. We raced often at an old AFB that was closed in 1971. He did beat me on a few occasions. My first accident I goosed the throttle and went off the road and hit a small tree. Dented the steel bumper. I got a new bumper. Next wreck I hit the side of an old bridge and tore up the Quarter Panel. I got it fixed. It was too much power for a 17 year old kid. I sold it in 1979 soon after my wife became pregnant. Sure do miss that car. I got the exact money I paid for it when I sold it....$900. The talk of the town was the 426 Hemi Cuda. Back in the 1970's the Hemi engine cars got all the respect. Over 40 years have passed and I came to realize the Hemi engine cars were not really all that special. Hemi internal combustion engines were around long before the 1960's. Hemispherical heads were used in airplanes back in the 1940's. But the Hemi engines were neat for sure.
I most definitely love the sound of that 383 all the way from idling to balls out I’m not a huge Chrysler fan but damn that was impressive and what were the results
Only difference is rear tail pipes are missing on the 440. Wonder if that's causing the popin an a banging. Cos I can drop that n an have a whole different note of a T5R 5 banger an she still pulls to 150mph like a train..
