273 Commando dress up parts

brodphish said
Looking for the air cleaner and valve covers. Also might be interested in the intake manifold, carb and possibly a set of heads.

So I should back up here a bit. The car is a 65 Barracuda from the AZ / CA area that is a really clean "survivor" car with no apparent rust. It has what I believe it 1 repaint in the original light blue. It originally had a 2bbl 273 but over the years it was replaced with an early date code 66 Commando verified with a bore scope. The cam and lifters were replaced last fall. The cam is slightly more aggressive than stock. The new lifters are hydraulic which is what was already in the car. When this work was done, it was determined the heads had different intake bolt sizes. So it's likely a 65-66 and a 67 head on the car. Know knows how that thappened. It was frustrating for the shop but they got it back together. It runs and sounds great (as it did before the work was done, now it's even better). But I'd like to get proper matching heads on the car with the right dress up parts for the commando. Right now it's got an Offy 360 intake manifold with a Quardajet carb so the engine is a mutt that runs strong and sounds great. I'd be interested in any parts to help get to a stock looking Commando. The car is worth it.

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1964 and 1965 273 heads have a common bolt angle. 1966 and up have a different bolt angle than 1964 and 65. You just need to know what year of heads you have and get the intake manifold that matches that respective year. The year of the engine blocks does not matter. If you have a 64/65 head on one side of the engine and a 66 and up head on the other side of the engine I would choose to get rid of the 64/65 head and replace it with a 66 and up head. That would give you more options of what intake manifold you could choose.