Learning all the time!Just to throw you into confusion heres a couple more.
2.875 bore x 4.063 stroke = 170.4 ci
This was a short motor produced '30s-'40s
3.375 bore x 4.063 stroke = 218.06ci
This was a long motor produced '30s,'40s,'50s
Chrysler seemed to have made a lot different engines to suit a huge array of situations when in my opinion 3 or 4 of them would have covered all the base's.Interchange is not quite as easy as you would think.Crank journals,piston pins,oil pump drives,dizzy drives,water pumps,con rods,flywheels,sumps, all varied. There was even an engine that was in between the long & short motors produced for the 35 DeSoto that almost nothing interchanged.This has always confused me as Mopar had such a well rounded package & the economics didn't stack.I think if you can identify a good engine & try to avoid as much unnesicary interchange you should pop out the other end with out modifying everything to fit.
The truck/marine engines are definitely stronger/meatier,lifting my 251 truck crank is almost a 2 man job!
Please don't get disillusioned by this reply
it's not a big deal if you have some info to know what your looking at/for.
Over here 1/2 the engines you discribe we never saw & we tended to get the left-overs or get "build your owns",this included everything from the front of the car to the back.
[This message has been edited by Flat-Ram (edited 08-30-2001).]
