Big Problems!
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Teching In
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From: Indiana
Big Problems! Just wanting to vent!!! Paid local shop to build a engine.I paid big money for a 383. Put the engine in the car with a mail order tune and the car ran like ****. Started to look into why my car ran funny. When I relized that I had paid for a ride that I never got to go on. I found that my 383 was infact a 355. Im pissed. I need a a beater car that I can sit in my driveway and beat the hell out of it. I see people with their conv. down, and Im stuck driving a 95 ford exploder with over 200,000 miles. One of those cars that you wouldn't be caught dead in. Yeah I get to drive that crap. Thanks for letting me vent my string of bad luck. I needed that.
I want my car.
I want my car. 
Wow, i am sorry to hear that, my 95 has been sitting longer than it has been running since i owned it. It sux, it should still run good, i mean, a 383 makes 40-60 more HP with the extra cubes, if it is running poorly then there is somthing wrong. Did a machine shop do it or what?
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Yeah had it machined. But the problem is is that this butt hole lied to me. he was the one that was doing everything. I just happened to think i was getting riped off and took a look into things you know. with everything that i have bought for the car and all the upgrades i would have been pushing like 725-750hp but becuz all the wrong parts that were bought for the car the only hp i will be getting is pushing it back onto the car hauler, and taking it home.
How do you know its only a 355? By the power output, or did you pop a head off and measure? Or did he tell you that?
Maybe its the mail order tune making it run like ****? A combo like that will never be right with a mail order tune.
Maybe its the mail order tune making it run like ****? A combo like that will never be right with a mail order tune.
Wheather The Machine Shop Ripped You Off Or The Tune Isnt Right SOMEBODY Had Better Be Fixing what ever The Problem Is.. 
And If Was The Machine Shop Make Them Do It Again For Free Since They Screwed Up..Or Slap them With A Lawsuit...
And If Was The Machine Shop Make Them Do It Again For Free Since They Screwed Up..Or Slap them With A Lawsuit...
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From: LT1 land...the "409" of the 90s!
I am with the others here how do you know it is not a 383?
The entire package needs to be working as a synch's up team. one off issue and it is all crap.
FIND the problem and solve it. the rest should fall in line.
The entire package needs to be working as a synch's up team. one off issue and it is all crap.
FIND the problem and solve it. the rest should fall in line.
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I bought a rare 85 Dodge Conquest for $350, and put like $1400 into it, including a new turbo, and I never got to drive it in the 4+ years I owned it Wasn't getting oil pressure after I installed the new turbo, which didn't make any sense. Never did figure out the cause.
But +1 on "how do you know it's a 355". You'd have disassemble the motor to figure that out.
Wasn't getting oil pressure after I installed the new turbo, which didn't make any sense. Never did figure out the cause.But +1 on "how do you know it's a 355". You'd have disassemble the motor to figure that out.
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From: LT1 land...the "409" of the 90s!
Originally Posted by 69gto96z
I would like to know that to. If you are running 700+ hp you have got to be using FI, which means a mail order tune probably wouldnt run all that great.
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From: Indiana
The original crank shaft is still in the car, the stroke is 3.480 and I need it to be 3.750,and the part number for the pistons are for a 355 stroke 3.480. It was the shop that I took it to that fucked everything up, not the machine shop they only did what this ******* told them to. already talked to machine shop and they have said that this block was for a 355 not 383. I dont think it is the tune, its the fact of everything that I have on the car is for 383. and what I have is a 355 block including the super charger which doesn't work right becuz the compresstion is to high. But in light of everything I got my hands on a 454 big block with tranny!!
