alternative engines, now Hemi

[Bruce Plecan]

I won't repeat the stories about when Hertz rented GT 350s.  I don't think
many wound up with the right engine in them.
Grumpy


| 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
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