Seen a ad on crackheads list for a Gm motor.. Guy said it was a 283, So had to go look.. Sure enough a 1960 283 Suffix code of "D" so it could be a 58 or 60 but date code on back is B220 making it a 60 and 2 barrel.. Yes it has a 4 barrel on it and the manifold is coded as a 1960 also.. I popped a valve cover and very clean inside NO SLUDGE ! and it is not locked either. Pulled a couple of the plugs and can see cross hatch in the upper cylinders Does have a spin on filter adapter, So being repainted it might have been rebuilt also, Will have to try and fire it up one day..
Cool stuff. The 283 definitely has 2 bbl. heads. Power Pack 283, (4 bbl.), heads would have a triangle pointing up from the bar on the ends of the heads.
The Carter book has very useful information when working on Carter carburetors. It is loose-leaf, and typically would cover back approximately 7 years from print date. I am not certain as to exactly when Carter started publishing these. The first one I have ever seen was published in 1931, and went back to 1923. It was gray in color, and paper-back. I have one new in its original mailing container. But I have some older pages when Carter used a different numbering system that I acquired from friends in the customer service department at Carter. The maroon leatherette binder such as you found came out about 1938, and continued to about 1963, when the binder became white with green lettering. These continued through approximately 1983. A green with black lettering binder was produced for high performance data. The books were a part of admission price to the Carter carburetor school. They could also be ordered directly from Carter, and an annual subscription for updates could also be ordered direct from Carter. Updates came out monthly. At any given time after about the end of WWII, there were 3 different "levels" of the book contents: dealer, jobber, and distributor. Each higher level would contain more pages of low production carbs. Many of the dual quad pages were contained only at the distributor level. Great information! Jon.
I had one of the maroon Carter books. I want to say it was 3 to 4 inches thick and was in very good condition. When i moved south I gave it to a good friend.
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