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I am having a serious argument with some idiot here at work who thinks he knows mopars. Can someone tell me 1. did any mopars from the 60-70's come from the factory with edelbrock intake manifolds? 6 pack, hemi, etc. 2. Did edelbrock ever make cast iron intake manifolds for the mopars? If you have the answer, what vehicles and do you have somewhere i can verify the information. Big money is riding on this.

Paul
 
The 340 6-pak and some of the 440 6-pak manifolds were aluminum and made by edelbrock. The 426 hemi had an alumium manifold don't know who made it. The cross ram manifolds on the 413 & 426 Max Wedge motors were aluminum also.
 
Wasnt the LD4B Eddie intake factory? that was just a 4bbl sb intake...but i may be way way wrong on that lol


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Goody, that particular LD-340 you have pictured there is not a factory intake, nor did the factory equip there cars with a 4bbl aluminum intake.

MoPar performance however DID have Edelbrock make a LD-340 with a choke well for use with the factory choke set up. The Choke well equiped Leven had a "P" number on it to order right from the desk of MP, then Direct connection.
Much like the Edelbrock Performer has a well on the side so you can use a T-Q.

Spencer, to the best of my knowledge, Edelbrock did NOT make any cast iron intakes for Chrysler corp or MoPar performance.
There 6 pak intakes are well known for the big and small block engines. (340 - 440)
I don't know about the HEMI or Max Wedge engines.
 
dgc333 said:
The 340 6-pak and some of the 440 6-pak manifolds were aluminum and made by edelbrock. The 426 hemi had an alumium manifold don't know who made it. The cross ram manifolds on the 413 & 426 Max Wedge motors were aluminum also.
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Hey Paul,

Dave is correct. The '70 model (factory production) small block, six pack, intake was made by Edelbrock. I'm not sure of all sources, but I know this can be verified in the "How To Hot Rod Small-Block Mopar Engines" book by Larry Shepard in the "induction system" chapter.

Hope this helps.

Robert
 
What intake was used for the 1966 D-Dart. Was it an eldelbrock LD4B or was it just a stock cast iron unit adapted to a Holley?
 
A low level cast iron single plane intake with a 4160 bolted on top.
 
Have you ever notice that some Eldelbrock LD340's hav a CHRY part number. I can't recall if the LD4B ever had any part numbers. Where some of these intakes sold over the parts counter?
 
mikedevore said:
Have you ever notice that some Eldelbrock LD340's hav a CHRY part number. I can't recall if the LD4B ever had any part numbers. Where some of these intakes sold over the parts counter?
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Read post #4

Then Yes and Yes to your questions.
 
mikedevore said:
Have you ever notice that some Eldelbrock LD340's hav a CHRY part number. I can't recall if the LD4B ever had any part numbers. Where some of these intakes sold over the parts counter?
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Yes,a lot of guys running in stock class could use them with the factory part numbers on them.......
 
hi, In stock, the LD 340 intake is NOT allowed ,period. it never came on a 340 from the factory. only the cast iron manifolds are accepted. NHRA lists the correct casting numbers allowed. LD 340 has no casting number!
 
perfacar said:
hi, In stock, the LD 340 intake is NOT allowed ,period. it never came on a 340 from the factory. only the cast iron manifolds are accepted. NHRA lists the correct casting numbers allowed. LD 340 has no casting number!
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I have one with a Chry. part number on it.
 
Part numbers and casting numbers aren't necessarily the same thing. The numbers on the stock intakes are casting numbers. The numbers that are on the LD340 intakes are a part number (although they are cast in), this intake was available over the counter at a Mopar dealer or any Direct Connection dealer. In some cases the casting numbers were the same as the part numbers but not always this is why it is easy to get the two mixed up.

What perfacar is saying is that the Mopar part number LD340 did not come on a car from the factory therefore NHRA does not allow it for use in Stock Eliminator. Now some other sanctioning body may allow it's use but NHRA does not and from reading perfacar's past posts I know he means NHRA.

Chuck
 
340mopar said:
Part numbers and casting numbers aren't necessarily the same thing. The numbers on the stock intakes are casting numbers. The numbers that are on the LD340 intakes are a part number (although they are cast in), this intake was available over the counter at a Mopar dealer or any Direct Connection dealer. In some cases the casting numbers were the same as the part numbers but not always this is why it is easy to get the two mixed up.

What perfacar is saying is that the Mopar part number LD340 did not come on a car from the factory therefore NHRA does not allow it for use in Stock Eliminator. Now some other sanctioning body may allow it's use but NHRA does not and from reading perfacar's past posts I know he means NHRA.

Chuck
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Might now allow it now.does'nt mean they did'nt run them back then...... :)
 
340srule said:
Might now allow it now.does'nt mean they did'nt run them back then...... :)
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That's very true and I almost put that in my post but didn't because being as long as I've been around NHRA(40 yrs)it probably didn't happening. My father was at one time a Division Tech Director.


Chuck
 
The only two intakes that I know for sure that were made by Edelbrock and appeared as a stock item on 60`s or 70`s Mopars were the 69, 440 6 pack intake and the 70 340 6 pack intake. The Edelbrock company was unable to supply enough 440 6 pack intakes for the 1970 year so Chrysler had their own cast in iron. The LD-340 is basically a copy of the 68-340 factory intake in aluminum. I may be wrong about this but I believe the LD4B was designed for the 273/318 engine with smaller ports than its brother the LD-340. HTH.
 
The LD-340 is basically a copy of the 68-340 factory intake in aluminum. I may be wrong about this but I believe the LD4B was designed for the 273/318 engine with smaller ports than its brother the LD-340.
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Top photo is a LD-340. Though modded, it is not just a copy of a stock intake. Similar, but just in looks as "In general look, it's a dual plane." As far as a copy of the earlier 340 intake, noooooooo way. That would be the MP dual plane 4bbl intake offering. The LD-340 is taller.
(Modded as per the MP manuals. This intake kicks a$$.)

The bottom photo is the LD4B. It has the smaller runners for the smaller engines.

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Al 69.5 six pack cars and some early 70s six pack cars has edelbrock intakes. The later cars had iron intakes made by Chrysler

The LD340s and other were sold threw Dirrect Connection but were not used from the factory.
 
AdamR said:
Al 69.5 six pack cars and some early 70s six pack cars has edelbrock intakes. The later cars had iron intakes made by Chrysler

I thought it was the other way around. Chrysler couldn't keep up with production with the Iron intakes, and farmed out the work to Edelbrock. This is what I thought happened on the 340 6-packs for the AAR's and TA's. JOE
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