Despite getting overshadowed by the Hemi, the B and RB engines were crucial in Chrysler's engine history until their end in 1979. Chrysler's B and RB 8 engines, sometimes overlooked by American ...
alongside a tamer 290-horsepower version of the same engine. Chrysler discontinued the B-series 383 V8 in 1971, by which point the 383's gross power output had dropped to 300 horsepower -- or 275 ...