alternative engines, now Hemi

[Don.F.Broadus at ucm.com]

I like the story about the guys running at the salt flats with their Hemi
powered creation, it seems they blew the engine so they went back to the
hotel pulled the Hemi out of the tow car ,put the hot cam and carbs off of
the blown engine,raced it , set a record, and then put the Hemi back in the
tow car and drove home. You gotta love it.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	.. [SMTP:rap at aci.net]
> Sent:	Wednesday, May 26, 1999 4:16 PM
> To:	diy_efi at efi332.eng.ohio-state.edu
> Subject:	Re: alternative engines, now Hemi
> 
> CLsnyder wrote:
> I've been a Mopar Man for years - owned a 241 cu Hemi Coronet (1953) among
> others. Interest in old cars has had me owning, over the years, a '28
> chevy
> national, '35 chevy master, 37 hudson terraplane, '53 coronet sierra
> (hemi), '57
> fargo custom express(rarest truck produced by chrysler since the 2nd war),
> '63
> valiant 170, '49 VW beetle, etc. etc.
> 
> CL;
> Do you recall the Dodge 241 cu.in. demo engine that was set-up as a 4
> overhead
> cam system back in the mid-to-late '50's? If Chrysler would have made that
> an
> actual production engine things would sure have been even more
> interesting. As I
> recall (fuzzily) they were going to try to get USAC to allow it as a stock
> block
> based installation - or something along those lines. Carl Kiekhaefer (of
> the
> Mercury Outboard Motors fame) may have had a hand somewhere in there I
> suppose
> as he (or rather his staff of race technicians) developed Chrysler's race
> hemi's
> for the Nascar series (Chrysler 300 based cars) in his race shop in
> Oshkosh, Wi.
> I recall that they developed heads, cams, manifolds, etc for Chrysler -
> complete
> with Chrysler part #'s...
> rap