Kevin is a nice guy, he also has a video on youtube about his car. 340/727. The three cars that we have found so far are stripe delete and no vinyl top.
Is that Kevin’s car in Ontario? That is who’s fender tag i posted. His 340 car, there’s a fellow in the northeastern US (whose name i can ever remember, sorry!) who has a 383 car, and my M-code that came from California in the 90s.
A very little known bit of trivia, if you wanted an A4 silver 69 Dart it was Y39 special order with code 99 for the paint. 69 Barracuda was coded A4. Seems very strange, or am I missing something.
Very interesting info, thanks. And your last comment sums everthing up perfectly!
There’s a Car and Driver list of fastest cars from AC Cobras to 427 vettes and the M-code GTS is number 20 all time, my thought is that if it’s that high on the list the manifolds aren’t that terrible.
No, it’s not good enough. I’ve never seen any tests that compare the A-body and B-body manifolds, if you can point one out that would be fantastic. Which is the whole point to me asking. And me knowing how much rear wheel HP my car makes doesn’t tell me a thing about manifold comparison.
There were different manifold casting numbers in 69 due to clearance for the new-for-69 availability of power steering, so the extra 30 horsepower between 68 and 69 is marketing to me. And it is a zero horsepower difference between a 69 383 4 barrel in a Satellite or Coronet 500 and an A-body...
Has there ever been a dyno comparison between the A-body “super restrictive because, well, look at them” exhaust manifolds and the B-body “look at me, I sweep all of the way to the back” manifolds? You would think it would be easy for one of the magazines to do on a dyno. EVERYBODY criticizes...