Well, I've been on here for a couple years and I finally have pics.

 

another

 

here's a couple of the 383...

 

No, it's not black, it's dark purple.

 

Last one.
After the winter, I should get 400rwhp after the head swap.("crossing Fingers")

 

Nice man, just nice. :lala:

 

Yeah Mark, you told me about the aluminum heads. Now the price you paid...you said that included shipping. Are those assembled or bare? And where did you get them?

Oh, and thanks

 

Assemlbed, including shipping, they were on sale, and now not. But I kept a look out for you guys, and talked to the owner, he said group purchase of at least 3, he would sell them for that discount price.

 

nice car, looks like black to me....
really nice though
how much for those heads mark?

 

$870 shipped, they'll be at my house on Tues.

 

I think I'll buy mine bare. That way i can port the bowls and clean them up even more, then put in my own stuff. Cheapest i found was $495 a pair, plus $38/each for shipping.

 

Mark, did you know Pro Action and AFR are the same company. And the Lightnings outflow the AFR 190's. Did you ever get any flow numbers? The shop that I'll probably get mine from said he'll send instructions on porting them without changing the intake size so you'll still get the the large airflow numbers without losing velocity for throttle response.

 

Nice ride.

I'm diggin that impala beside it too
Anyone know what kind of rims they are on that car?

 

Cool.

 

Actually, I don't think they're the same any more, I heard that they were in the past.

i got the flow #s from www.procylinderheads.com i believe

 

Yes, I was misinformed. AFR was the leading distributor of Pro heads for a while, but they ended up selling more pro's than afr's so they stopped selling them. I heard Pro Action's are built in New Zealand, and yes, they still outflow the AFR's for half the price!!!

 

nice car man

 

Nice, really clean under the hood. How difficult was it to swap the motors from, I'm guessing a fuel injected 350 to a carburetored 383?

 

Yes, you have the swap pretty close 305tpi to 383 carbed. It wasn't too bad. Got rid of the in-take fuel pump, and I had to re-wire all of the stock guages to work without the computers signal and interpretation. Other than that, it was worth it. No more,"whats wrong with my car". The carb is just the easiest motor to diagnose. It may not have the throttle response of the TPI, but the power and torque run right up to 6000rpm, unlike the tpi which died around 3500-4000rpm.

 

cool.

 

Looks real sharp. I can't even tell its purple.

 

its Sweet!!

 

looks great!!

 

That 383 is beautiful!

 

Thanks, it was a lot of work, I'm glad some people appreciate it.
Any time I go to a car show, I lose out to some gay frenched up ride that somebody went spray bomb crazy in their engine compartment. It gets a little discouraging, but then when it done and we're leaving, I just waste them on the highway, and everything is good again.