alternative engines, now Hemi

[Todd....!!]

I've never actually RACED a HEMI(Drove it on the track) but my buddy
cruises all over Houston in his 68 Race Hemi Cuda, I believe it's one of
the 50 made... He's rich and owns a LOT of Hemi and 440 6-pak cars...

Anyhoo.. I believe ya, the Hemi heads really flow alot, even in stock
form, add that to the shape of the combustion chamber and where the
spark plug(s) are located within the cylinder and you have one power
packin pachyderm!

A guy in another forum that I frequent VERY often is in the process of
purchasing a flow bench from a guy that's goin outa business, maybe
he'll do some flow testin of some hemi stuff...

I know the Hemi has been flow tested to DEATH, but this guy has REALLY
unique ideas and the money to follow up with researchin those ideas, ya
know!

right now matter of fact he's usin 427 Ford pistons in a 383 Mopar block
with I dunno WHAT kinda crank to build some sorta trick engine, he's
writing up an article about the build, takin all the pics of the build
and hopes to get the thang published in some mag, pretty cool, ey?

LATER!

Todd....
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ECMnut at aol.com wrote:
> 
> My friend has raced NHRA SuperStock since it was born in the 60's,
> and he told me that if his big block chebbie didn't have at least two
> car lengths on a Hemi at half track, the race was lost by the time they
> reached the finish line.  The Hemi's top end charge put the other V8s
> to shame.
> Mike V
> 
> In a message dated 5/19/99 10:59:40 PM Eastern Daylight Time, jimd at vcc.bc.ca
> writes:
> 
> > > Ever notice how the 427 wedge's (Chevy Ford Chry) all sound different
> than
> > all
> >  > other engines????same for 440's...  Then there's the Hemi... you can
> sure
> > pick up
> >  > their song in a crowd.   Nuff said
> >  >
> >  In the latest Automobile Quarterly there is an article which mentions dyno
> >  development at Mopar on the 426. Apparently the dyno engines headers
> >  dumped into a high stack, no mufflers. They said the whole area knew
> >  when they were playing with them, especially when they were packed
> >  tight. They even mention some of the early engines, both developmental and
> >  production. First I have seen about the A16, a 6 cylinder development
> >  engine, and also a "330 inch" v8 [A182] developmental engine which ran in
> >  1948. Heck, they even mention the 2220 although not too accurately.
> >