HOT ROD announced the Win Your Dream Engine Contest sponsored by Edelbrock, Comp Cams, Performance Distributors, Speed-Pro, Milodon, and ARP in June 2003. The idea was that readers would design an engine using any parts they wanted from the sponsors’ catalogs. We’ve already covered the Ford (Dec. ’04) and Pontiac (Jan. ’05) winners; now, at long last, it’s the Mopar’s turn.
Out of6,039 entries, David Stottmann of Parsons, Kansas, caught our attention with his Plan B, which involved turning down the mains on a Chrysler RB 440 engine’s 3.75-inch-stroke crank so it would fit in the lower-deck 400 B-block with its smaller main-bearing sizes. Although this crank swap isn’t all that uncommon these days, David added spice to the proposal with his plan to use 400 Chrysler rods and bore…
