Phil Patterson writes: Curious, I have a 74 Cop Car 440 sittin in the garage,
it has the humongous harmonic dampener on the front, so I assumed large damper
=cast crank? Reason why I am curious , if this is so, then my spare 74 440 will
drop right in place of the 383 forged crank original motor in my 68 Roadrunner.
Is the only way to be sure is to drop the oil pan and look at the crank? And
would this also be true of the original 440 in my 77 crew cab Dodge? I thought
all 440's after 73 were cast crank motors regardless of original application.
Larry C. Stanley wrote:
> The name Magnum on a MoPar engine almost always refers to the higher (est?)
> preformance engine option. In the 1974 Dodge police booklet, the 440 was
> the Magnum. It had several optional items in it that the stock 440s did not
> have. The most important of which was a forged, not cast, crankshaft. Most
> of the books will say that MoPar did not have forged cranks in 1974 cars,
> but the cop cars did (so did heavy duty trucks).
>
> Larry
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