C1 Intake?
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Racer
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C1 Intake?
Rather than sort through 2246 pages of stuff, I'll just throw this out. Is anybody familiar with a Winters aluminum intake, casting #3823481? It appears to be an aluminum clone of the cast iron 283/230 manifold; small mounting flange as in AFB or Rochester 4G, definitely not a Holley base. Low rise, unlike the L79 or LT-1 manifolds. Obviously it's pre-emissions as it has no EGR or divorced choke provisions. I could not locate a casting date, so I assume that if there IS one, it's hidden under the heat shield. Even the Chevy part number ID guides don't list it.
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I've seen one or two discussions on this. Some have speculated a marine application, but aluminum doesn't seem like a great choice for that.
Apparently, answer is it's from an M114 Armored Fighting Vehicle. See post #9 in this thread, and follow links in that post for more information:
https://www.corvetteforum.com/forums...nifold-id.html
Apparently, answer is it's from an M114 Armored Fighting Vehicle. See post #9 in this thread, and follow links in that post for more information:
https://www.corvetteforum.com/forums...nifold-id.html
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Racer
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Thanks for pointing the way, mystery solved. You're right, aluminum would not be my personal 1st choice for a marine application, but the M114 has its own self-contained cooling system. I recall that back in 'Nam, the M113 armored personnel carriers were powered by (I presume) militarized versions of the Chevy 283. Aluminum does seem pretty exotic for a tracked military vehicle where gross vehicle weight is not exactly a prime consideration. Don't know now whether I would consider this for a Corvette application, although it WOULD certainly be a conversation starter ("what's with all them there pipe plugs?"). Hmm, I'm trying to imagine an M113, stroker 383, LT-1 cam and manifold with a 750 Holley. "We don't need no steenkin' Huey!" 
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As I recall the 113's had 327's . They were gasoline powered. Not a good idea in combat with essentially an aluminum body.Built by FMC . They used Mopar 383's also.
The 114 replaced it with a deasil drivetrain.
I was in a combat engineer Battalion that was direct support to the 11th Armored Cav. They were the first Armored unit in Vietnam.
The 114 replaced it with a deasil drivetrain.
I was in a combat engineer Battalion that was direct support to the 11th Armored Cav. They were the first Armored unit in Vietnam.
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Racer
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Coulda been 327's too. There's no replacement for cubic displacement as they say. Off subject for a moment; I personally witnessed the 11th Cav. in action. Rescued a downed loach crew before Chas. could get to them. Well done and. . . . welcome home!
