During the 1960s and '70s, Chrysler made some of the auto industry's most desirable engines, such as the performance-geared Mopar 340 small-block V8. Chrysler advertised it as making 275 ...

Keen to build a lead in the power stakes, the automotive giant decided to upgrade its small-block V8 in the ... to keep the size of the engine similar. Chrysler 340 ci Six-Pack Ford 351 ci 4V ...

The 383 B was actually the first of them, followed by the 440 in '65 and the 340 in '68. Also, none of these three engines came from the same family. The 383 and 440 big-blocks are somewhat ...

Once a staple of the hot rod and modification scenes, the era of the big block V8 engines has largely ended thanks to technological advances in the 1980s and 1990s. The result was 340 horsepower ...