Paging Jim Rhinehart (Rhinodart)

dart4forte said
Hey Jim, have question that came up during a recent conversation.

We know that Norm Kraus threw together a 67 Dart with a big block to show the Chrysler execs it could be done. The question is what about the driver side manifold?
Did they hack a magnum manifold to make it work? If so, was it used as a mock-up for the 67 castings?

Figured you would know.
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That story is a fairy tale. Plymouth was already putting 383's in Barracuda's from the start of the '67 model year. All Dodge had to do was use the same DS manifold as Plymouth to put a 383 in a Dart (same engine bay). I'm sure the Chrysler engineers could have figured that out. They didn't need Norm for that.