Intake info needed !

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NCmtnDWELLER

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Greetings from GA
Picked this jewel up yesterday for a good price and was wondering if someone could tell me the difference between it an a LD-340 ???
Thank you

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It's basically the same as the LD340 but made for the small port heads on the smaller engines, as mentioned. Nothing wrong with them and they have tremendous resale value right now.
 
RustyRatRod said:
It's basically the same as the LD340 but made for the small port heads on the smaller engines, as mentioned. Nothing wrong with them and they have tremendous resale value right now.
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Definitely a very cool nostalgia peice, and if looks are important, a LD4B looks Wayyyyy cooler than the typical performer 318/360.
 
Sweet piece for a street 318 build. Why does edelbrock refuse to re-issue these intakes? Its obvious there is plenty of demand for them. I love the air gap but honestly I like how the LD looks like a stock iron intake.
 
MoparMike1974 said:
Sweet piece for a street 318 build. Why does edelbrock refuse to re-issue these intakes? Its obvious there is plenty of demand for them. I love the air gap but honestly I like how the LD looks like a stock iron intake.
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I went after a free 69 [ 318 ] long block which turned out to be a 78 model engine but during that trip this fellow had several intakes for $150 and this one being older was attractive to me and was able to obtain 3 B body 15x7 big pattern wheels so glad the deal happened. I will keep this since u just don't see them a lot also will look much better after its blasted.
 
Good score I got a LD4B on my 360. Good intake little brother to the LD340, it’s better than the performer intake.
 
67/6barracuda said:
Good score I got a LD4B on my 360. Good intake little brother to the LD340, it’s better than the performer intake.
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I also have a LD4B on a 360 in my wife's Little Red Ex. I think it has more bottom end power than the LD340.
LD stands for Let's Dance.
 
for reasons that I have so far failed to figure out the location of the two planes of the runners are reversed between LD4B and LD340. The LD4B started production in 1966 (for 273) when the intake bolt angle changed (early 273 took the actual original - D4B) and the LD340 came out in 1968 with bigger ports. But all the runners that were high in an LD4B are low in the LD340, and visa versa.

Would welcome an explanation if someone has one...

My first aftermarket manifold was an LD4B bought new in 1976 - it cost about $100 at Aberdeen Speed Shop on Rt40 in Aberdeen MD and the new 600 Holley cost about the same. It was a huge investment for my 318 1970 Dart
 
str12-340 said:
for reasons that I have so far failed to figure out the location of the two planes of the runners are reversed between LD4B and LD340. The LD4B started production in 1966 (for 273) when the intake bolt angle changed (early 273 took the actual original - D4B) and the LD340 came out in 1968 with bigger ports. But all the runners that were high in an LD4B are low in the LD340, and visa versa.

Would welcome an explanation if someone has one...

My first aftermarket manifold was an LD4B bought new in 1976 - it cost about $100 at Aberdeen Speed Shop on Rt40 in Aberdeen MD and the new 600 Holley cost about the same. It was a huge investment for my 318 1970 Dart
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I went to AIT at Aberdeen Proving Grounds in 1971.
Talk about a flashback. I loved it there.
 
from 1968 to 1974 I lived between Aberdeen Proving Grounds and Edgewood Arsenal. They were a great source of surplus equipment for backpacking (although by this day's standards ridiculously overweight). Lots of my friends' dads worked there - my dad worked at Bethlehem Steel in Sparrows Point, which at the time was the largest steel plant in the world.
 
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