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    Headers vs 340 manifolds

    Just to update a bit, I took my 67 Barracuda to the strip a couple of months ago. I went from 13.70s at 98 with stock 340 hi-po manifolds, 2.25 exhaust and 3.23 gears to 13.07 at 106.5 with TTI headers, 2.5 inch exhaust and 3.55 gears. Both times through the mufflers. With a pretty dinky cam...
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    Headers vs 340 manifolds

    From a 1966 Speed Equipment Company catalog circa 1966. Isky is already getting away from the 3/4, 3/4 full and full race terms, having Road and Drag and Super Road and Drag, plus "Magnum" and "Magnum Super Le Gerra," etc., but still uses the terms "3/4" and "3/4 full." Below is a partial...
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    Headers vs 340 manifolds

    The "3/4 cam" didn't come from ignorant teenagers, but from the cam makers themselves. Today, it is a completely outdated term, and meaningless with regard to modern cams.
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    Headers vs 340 manifolds

    I have a few sixties speed equipment catalogs. There were full race cams, 3/4 race cams, 3/4 full cams. Had nothing to do with 3/4 mile tracks; 3/4 was hotter than stock, milder than full race. The terms date back to the flathead Ford V8 days. Instead of trying to copy a page out of one of...
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    1966 Valiant Tail lights

    66 Barracuda has the backup light in the middle, Valiant has it at the bottom. Its backup lense is also plainer than the Barracuda's.
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    1966 Valiant Tail lights

    Ok, Schimmel does have the Barracuda lenses, too.
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    1966 Valiant Tail lights

    66 Valiant and Barracuda lenses aren't the same. These look like Valiant lenses
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    Headers for 67 barracuda 318 with no modifications

    Agree. Plus, they will already be there if and when the OP decides to upgrade that stock 318.
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    Headers for 67 barracuda 318 with no modifications

    I've got 2.5 inch tailpipes on my 67. Reproduction 67 tank with original tank strap. No clearance problem. 360, TTI headers and TTI 2.5 inch X-pipe exhaust.
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    1965 Offenhauser 273!

    I agree. It's one of the best looking air cleaners ever. Probably too small for a high horsepower motor, but more than enough for a less than 300 cube motor. Shoot, Chrysler put them on some four barrel big blocks in the early sixties - 361s all the way up to 413s (only they were painted...
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    1965 Offenhauser 273!

    OK, but I like the chrome one better. See post #20. The one above is for later 340s etc, so not like the original 65 in any event, but the original 65 four barrel air cleaner was chrome.
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    1965 Offenhauser 273!

    This one is a copy of the mid-sixties FORD air cleaner. Xnay on that one. Edit: I forgot I had already identified this one in post #39.
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    Original unrestored 1948 Dodge dealer service truck NOT MINE

    OK, not an A body, but what a history! Bought new by the owner of a DeSoto/Plymouth dealer in Dadeville, Alabama. Used as the dealer service truck from 1948 until Plymouth production ceased, sold in 1991. Just returned to the original family last year, when the original owner's great grandson...
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    Seriously wrong Car Identifications ?????????

    Studebaker guy took his Stude to a local guy who has built some stout Chevy motors. After studying the Stude's 289 (Studebaker) engine, he went to the local parts store and bought a bunch of parts for a fifties Y-block Ford. None of them fit, of course.
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