Our cars have 23* heads?

 

i still have the stock thransmission in my car still do u guys think that will hold up if i get a 383 or am i gonna need a shiftkit, or a whole new performance transmission???

 

700R4 should be fine. A T5 like I have, on the other hand, I would be worried. You MIGHT want to get a heavy-duty rebuild kit, bigger tranny cooler, shift kit, etc... but it will for the most part be fine.

 

Lol.. *jinx* Gunny!

 

Yes it will hold. For how long is another question. Before I left LPE, John told me that the tranny was a stock one and would die real quick. I told him it was freshly rebuilt by GM and he said he didn't care. Less than 1 year if I am careful he said. It lasted 6 months with me grannying the tranny. Got a rebuild by www.rosslertrans.com and it lasted for 3.5 years with me beating on it every day there was no snow on the ground.

 

whatever you do you better keep it smog legal, you are in CA, id just got and rebuild the 350 and get some nice smog legal parts for it, there is no way you are going to be able to install some high horsepower 383 or 400 sbc into that car and pass smog, unless you keep it real mild, and then whats the point.

 

You might be able to get wawy with installing a chip before the test that is going to be real mild and then after the test, put back the naughty one.