Carb swap

[440 4 speed]

Can you send a picture of the valve covers?

 

[Sadie_the_66]

Can you send a picture of the valve covers?

 

[turbine68rt]

I hope you're not driving it with the kickdown rod disconnected. If so, you can expect a premature trans rebuild.

 

[Sadie_the_66]

I hope you're not driving it with the kickdown rod disconnected. If so, you can expect a premature trans rebuild.

Car is not being driven, given I am only 14 years old

 

[Don Frelier]

Car is not being driven, given I am only 14 years old

Yet your profile shows 27, so the question was perfectly reasonable

 

[Sadie_the_66]

Yet your profile shows 27, so the question was perfectly reasonable

I put is as 27 in case there is an age limit

 

[70bigblockdodge]

I put is as 27 in case there is an age limit

Smart, keep them guessing. That's a LA 318, has nothing to do with being built at Los Angeles assembly plant. Stands for light "A" engine, compared to the original "A" engine from the 1950s, or poly engine, phased out in 1966, or 1967 if in Canada. 1967 starts the LA 318 in U.S.
Thank you for being interested in old cars at 14. Great learning tool even if you don't stay with them forever.

 

[Sadie_the_66]

Smart, keep them guessing. That's a LA 318, has nothing to do with being built at Los Angeles assembly plant. Stands for light "A" engine, compared to the original "A" engine from the 1950s, or poly engine, phased out in 1966, or 1967 if in Canada. 1967 starts the LA 318 in U.S.
Thank you for being interested in old cars at 14. Great learning tool even if you don't stay with them forever.

I bought this car when I was 12, and I knew it wasn't a poly, but the year stuff had me messed up and I was sure it wasn't a 273

 

[70bigblockdodge]

I bought this car when I was 12, and I knew it wasn't a poly, but the year stuff had me messed up and I was sure it wasn't a 273

Seems to be a later intake, but I'm not to good with small blocks, so I'll leave that to the people who know more. I believe the early intakes are all the x looking ones, like a 2 bbl single plane.

 

[turbine68rt]

Stands for light "A" engine, compared to the original "A" engine from the 1950s, or poly engine, phased out in 1966, or 1967 if in Canada. 1967 starts the LA 318 in U.S.

Not in 100% of the cars sold new in the US. See post 17.

 

[70bigblockdodge]

Not in 100% of the cars sold new in the US. See post 17.

No, you quote the post, I'm not going to look up your rebuttal.

 

[turbine68rt]

This was sold new in Pa. 318 poly with hydraulic cam. 67 Coronet 440.