alternative engines, now Hemi

[Todd....!!]

Gotta love them overheads!

My Mitsu Eclipse Turbo 5-speed is one piece of work...  The 4 cams are
all ROLLER cams, and the thing is lifter-less!  The rollers are in the
middle of the rockers!  The cam rides right on top of the rocker arm
rollers themselves!  ALL 16 of em!

Guess what happens when a lil unsee-able hydraulic adjuster mechanism on
the opposite side from the valve on under the rocker arm getss worn or
gets crap in it?

The thing clatters like I don't know what!  Like it's not gettin oil
pressure or somethin!

That's my current delimma with my Eclipse, the lil adjusters are
supposedly $20 each! Times 16 of em puts me WAY over budget for that
car, that's one of the reasons I'm drivin the Superbee to work n back,
I'd like to see a part that breaks cost more than $200 on my Bee!  My
ENTIRE friggin 440 didn't even cost more than $135 from the junk yard!

The Eclipse also could use another transaxle, have a crank in this
one...  That'll be fun to pull again, just replaced the clutch and
timing belt within the past year... Oh what fun it is to have a foriegn
car in your lot!


LATER!

Todd....!!

.. wrote:
> 
> 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