Old Race Parts and Pieces
 

I didn't see a thread about old and rare parts like Hemi, MW, SD Poncho, Ford Tunnel Port, etc. A friend of mine in Florida has an early 426 Hemi block. It looks like it was made with the 426 MW tooling with the AAQA on the front of the block with the sand mold modified for the oil drainback holes. The head stud bosses look shorter than the later blocks and it has the A-864 designation on the pad. He bought it in a swap meet.

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Here is a photo of a Doug Nash Warrior intake I bought off eBag. I thought it was a B1 intake. It was modified for a 4500 carb. I tried to give it to a Poncho buddy in Mill-wah-key but he didn't want it. He found a buyer for it. Nice looking intake for the day. It's sitting on top of a 440 intake. I thought about trying to adapt it to a BB Mopar, but the offset is the opposite direction bank-to-bank.

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Great topic
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This should bring out some neat stuff.

How about the "questionable" legal parts that are no longer relevant? :eek:

Show us some of the trick stuff from back in the day. :D

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Your right does look to be a good one.

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Probably a prototype piece for an early '64 drag car or Nascar team, did he say where he found it, in the Detroit area or a shop down south somewhere's.

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looks like the Pontiac Warrior Intake w the water jacket cut off the front. I have an old Warrior catalogue around somewhere..
cool piece.

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A-864 is probably the program name from Mopar - EXO would be experimental - can't make out the casting date (1966?).

Owner should try and get in touch with Tom Hoover to see exactly what it is - very cool !

Try contacting Mancini Racing in Mich maybe they can help.

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He bought it at a swap meet in Florida. The casting date is 10-17-63. There are two articles that have been published on that block. One is in the Mopar Collectors Guide, the other was in Mopar Muscle magazine. We have a mutual friend, Stewart in Tampa, that used to hang out with the Mopar Missile crew back in the early 1970s. I was fortunate enough to be included in the early rounds of figuring out this block. The AAQA stood out for me. Bill Weertman thinks it was used for valvetrain testing as one of the head stud bosses cracked, making it useless for engine testing. Apparently the EXO marking also lends to the theory that it wasn't a running engine. I don't know if Hoover has seen the block, but the Missile gang usually makes it down for the Gators, so I'm sure Olfield has seen it and probably Joe Pappas. I got to meet those guys at the 2008 Hemi Reunion in Ohio thanks to Stewart.

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The A-864 Program. A couple of photos of early Race Hemi stuff. The A-990 was the 1965 Drag Race combo, but both are usually called A-990.

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Not a production part, but I was told this intake was made by Tom Hoover and it was in a Plymouth street car of his with a 392 stuffed in it.