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Barrito Loco Diablo
Join Date: May 2008
Location: Cherry Valley, Illinois
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Offenhauser manifold find
While talking to a buddy the other day, we got on the subject of sbc motors.
Quickly it turned into him telling me about a 283 he had bagged up in the garage. After some cutting of plastic wrap and a quick turning on of a flashlight. I noticed it had an Offenhauser intake manifold. He's willing to let the motor go for what he paid for it 15 years ago, which is $200. I don't have alot of room currently, but i'm thinking a deal like this is too good to pass up. Apparently it's got a mild cam and .040 over pistons. It's pretty complete minus valve covers a carb and pulleys. Any suggestions? |
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Location: Benton, AR "The Heart of Arkansas"
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Re: Offenhauser manifold find
I traded off a '67 275horse 327 for less than that and it had been hot tanked, new cam bearings, mains miked, new oil gallery plugs, good double-hump heads and all the accessories. Wish I had it back. It was a 60K mile block, with no ring groove.
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BlahBlahBlah
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Wa.
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Re: Offenhauser manifold find
I have a buddy that bought his 69 Camaro convertible brand new. Someone had ordered it up special and then changed their mind, so my friend picked it up at a little better price than he normally would have gotten.
It came with the cross ram set up on it. He said it ran like crap so he took it off almost right away. He still has the manifold, carbs and air cleaner set up all tucked away neatly in his attic. Wonder if he would take 200 bucks for it if I asked him nicely? ![]() |
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Texas Big Wig
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Mineola, Texas
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Re: Offenhauser manifold find
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Northern AZ
Posts: 7,271
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Re: Offenhauser manifold find
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These are (were) worth some change, but GM just decided to rerelease these (a year or so ago). The market went down on them and so did the price, granted the OE ones are "original" the repops look just like them and work. So your buddies is a numbers matching piece for a resto nut, but the repop is qite a bit less and looks right. I'd guess It's worth $4-800 depending on how bad someone wanted it (just the intake), again they used to bring $1,000 up to $2500 as a complete deal. I want one just for the $****s and grins of having it under the hood!! On a street driven or even DD vehicle they would run crappy, because they were designed in the stone ages, but for race applications only, if it (any part, intake, spoiler, etc) was going to make it onto a race car in the Trans Am series, it had to be offered on a production car (as an option, or standard equipment). So the cross ram was supposed to be for high RPMs being sustained (302 rapped up there, too 7k rpm and above!), bbut not for stop light to stop light. With todays carbs and linkages etc, that set up would probably work pretty good. Just think a pair of 500 cfm demons!! |
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Barrito Loco Diablo
Join Date: May 2008
Location: Cherry Valley, Illinois
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Re: Offenhauser manifold find
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[IMG] ![]() I even have a spare air cooled flat six that would be a crazy project. Just thinking of an air cooled 43'......... Weird. Last edited by exmonkeypunk; 07-21-2008 at 07:03 PM. |
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Location: Urbana,Ohio,USA
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Re: Offenhauser manifold find
What type of manifold? Just because its older and an Offenhauser doenst mean its worth that much.
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blood type; Retumbo
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: next to my reloading bench
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Re: Offenhauser manifold find
snatch that thing up NOW!!
a 283 is cooler than 2 chicks kissin' (sorry LHM, I like that line) |
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Northern AZ
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Re: Offenhauser manifold find
Man, do it! I have crazy ideas of a turbo'd L6, not ratrod or ole school just what I want to try! The offy on that 283 could be rare, but most likely an old design that has been improved upon or replaced, but a for the look an older intake is cool as long as it works.
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