Topless69
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I’ve got this 318, just noticed the what looks like an 8.25.66 mfg date (see pic) Did Mopar build these in 66?
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Show us the Heads... You'll have your answer.
Topless69
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It’s an LA, just never heard of one that would have been mfg as early as 66. Maybe that second 6 is an 8. I’ll see if I can get pics of the heads tomorrow.
but, Did '67 Cars get 318's?
My Dad bought a new 67 Plymouth and it came with an LA engine not a poly. So Aug. 66 would be a good time to start building LA's and leave the Poly's up in Canada.
My dad bought one of these brand new
1967 Dodge Coronet 440 2-Door Hardtop 318 V-8 TorqueFlite (aut. 3) (model since September 1966 for North America U.S.) car specifications & performance data review
1967 Dodge Coronet 440 2-Door Hardtop 318 V-8 TorqueFlite (aut. 3) .
Specs datasheet with technical data and performance data plus an analysis of the direct market competition of Dodge Coronet 440 2-Door Hardtop 318 V-8 TorqueFlite (aut. 3) in 1967, the model with 2-door hardtop coupe body and V-8 5210 cm3 / 318 cui, 171.5 kW / 233 PS / 230 hp (SAE gross) offered since September 1966 for North America U.S.. According to the ProfessCars™ estimation this Dodge would accelerate 0-60 mph in 8.7 sec, 0-100 km/h in 9.2 sec and a quarter mile time is 16.4 sec. The overall dimensions are 5156 mm / 203 in of length, 1913 mm / 75.3 in of width (without mirrors) and 1370 mm / 53.9 in of height.
HemiSSDart
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318's didn't come in A-Bodies until 1968, but came in other bodies in 1967 which started on 8-1-66...
Yep. It is a 67 318 with a casting date of 8-25-66, just not out of an A body.
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HemiSSDart
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I think I answered it pretty well, was cast in 1966 for a 1967 model year car...
It's not. It's a 66 date casting for the 67 model year.
Perfectly. I knew it soon as I saw the casting date. Don't know why it's so hard for others to grasp.
The new cars came out in September, so a 67 car would be built in August 66.
New models released around the first of August.
Mopars? Consistency? 
Dan the man
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It could've been manufactured in 1966 for the 1967 models. My dad bought a new 1967 Dodge D100 pick up and it had a 318 with a pos stromburg carburetor.
As one that looked forward to new car reveals, it was more in September than August that new car models came out.
The casting date of a part can be from the calendar year BEFORE the actual model year.
It shouldn't be so hard for people to understand.
Cars and parts are not "born". They are cast, forged, molded and assembled.
This engine block was cast early enough to be for a legitimate early 1967 year model car.
Rick Ehrenberg often said that a proper date coded engine should be no more than 2-3 months older than the build date of the car and certainly no closer than 1 month.
I did have a 440 that I pulled from a 1971 Chrysler 300 that has a November 1969 casting date. It was the original engine. That was the longest span between casting and installation that I have heard of.
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