Got a free motor, don't recognize the manifold on it.
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TheIronSausage
Two brain cells left.. rubbing together for warmth
So were my folks? Born in '48 each..
68R/T
I got drunk and swallowed my teeth, now
...and raised in the Elvis & Buddy Holly era. :giggedy:
Dr.Jass
Pastor of Muppets
Well, I was in fifth grade when Reagan was shot, so I'm ten and a half years your senior. Show some God-damned respect, whippersnapper! 
As I said, the best way I can "save" the '69 is to get it into the hands of someone that cares about it more than I do. It's not that I don't care, it's that I don't care enough. The one advantage to my age rather than yours was I was there for the final round of truly-affordable musclecars. My first car was a '75 Trans Am 455 auto. Next was my '73 Challenger 340/4-speed. Those two cars combined cost me $1,600; the Trans Am being 13 years old was $1,100 and the Challenger was $500 and 15 years old. Rusty beater gas hogs, just like #3, which was a T-top '79 300 I picked up for $600 or my '73 Charger Rallye 340, another $1,100 peach. I picked up a '70 Super Bee while I had the Charger, dropping a whole $50 on a triple-brown 383 console auto example. The cars I passed up, either by choice or by destiny, would bring a tear to your eye. It's not gloating or boasting, I was just lucky enough to be of age at the tail end of when the cars they now restore with paint daubs, devote entire magazines to, and auction for more than a couple years' salary were still inexpensive (I decided not to buy a genuine, solid U-code '70 'Cuda auto literally because the interior was full of junk and someone had notched the rear valance for extended shackles... $1,400 seemed obscene). Maybe it's a perspective thing, but having been around all that you'll have to forgive me if a slant six Valiant post coupe doesn't give me a six-foot erection with a giant cheeseburger on the end. Someone else will get that boner, though, and hopefully it's someone that will do right by it... and pay me $1,900 (or a reasonable offer) for the honor. That money will go towards my Challenger, my Imperial, and my Suburban, all of which do stir my soul for various reasons.
As I said, the best way I can "save" the '69 is to get it into the hands of someone that cares about it more than I do. It's not that I don't care, it's that I don't care enough. The one advantage to my age rather than yours was I was there for the final round of truly-affordable musclecars. My first car was a '75 Trans Am 455 auto. Next was my '73 Challenger 340/4-speed. Those two cars combined cost me $1,600; the Trans Am being 13 years old was $1,100 and the Challenger was $500 and 15 years old. Rusty beater gas hogs, just like #3, which was a T-top '79 300 I picked up for $600 or my '73 Charger Rallye 340, another $1,100 peach. I picked up a '70 Super Bee while I had the Charger, dropping a whole $50 on a triple-brown 383 console auto example. The cars I passed up, either by choice or by destiny, would bring a tear to your eye. It's not gloating or boasting, I was just lucky enough to be of age at the tail end of when the cars they now restore with paint daubs, devote entire magazines to, and auction for more than a couple years' salary were still inexpensive (I decided not to buy a genuine, solid U-code '70 'Cuda auto literally because the interior was full of junk and someone had notched the rear valance for extended shackles... $1,400 seemed obscene). Maybe it's a perspective thing, but having been around all that you'll have to forgive me if a slant six Valiant post coupe doesn't give me a six-foot erection with a giant cheeseburger on the end. Someone else will get that boner, though, and hopefully it's someone that will do right by it... and pay me $1,900 (or a reasonable offer) for the honor. That money will go towards my Challenger, my Imperial, and my Suburban, all of which do stir my soul for various reasons.
68R/T
I got drunk and swallowed my teeth, now
68R/T bought his first car from Pebbles Flintstone. She didn't want the reminder around after her Dad died.
No, it was after she broke up with Bam-Bam Rubbles 'cuz he popped her cherry in the back seat. :naughty:
TheIronSausage
Two brain cells left.. rubbing together for warmth
Hey Doc, Im a-gonna pick your brain again.. There's two different LD4Bs. ld4b 2138139 and ld4b 2136139, 8139 has a full square mounting pad that looks like it can be hogged out for a T-quad, the other has an external contour that suggests a spreadbore profile, but might not have enough meat on it. Let's say I was considering defiling one of these, will either take a T-quad? Or will the 6139 only accept an AVS?
Dr.Jass
Pastor of Muppets
I would use whatever you have, which appears to be the smaller of the two flanges, with an open-center adapter plate (if you pay more than $10 at a swap meet, you got hosed). Just use longer studs/bolts on the correct carb pattern on the manifold. The increase in plenum area will help, it's a built-in "Vanke mod", and you won't ruin the manifold for when you want to flip it to some moron on eBay for $150+. That's almost double its actual worth, but people will pay it. If you just had to grind one for some reason, the wider square-flange design has more meat and would probably accept a TQ. It'd be close on the secondaries, though, and a thin steel spacer plate as included with the 2176 Performer might still be needed.
TheIronSausage
Two brain cells left.. rubbing together for warmth
Good point, thanks