LT1 Wrangler For Sale in Arizona (repost)
07-19-2005, 12:40 AM
#41
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Re: LT1 Wrangler For Sale in Arizona (repost)
Billy Ray wrote:
> .The 'big" V-8 in marine use was Chrysler's 440. There are still a lot of
> them around in the older wood boats.
>
> As for professional racing they used WWII era Allison's designed for
> aircraft, V-12 Packards, or Rolls-Royce.
The older heavy as hell Chrysler 392 went into a lot of boats,
gensets, irrigation pumps and start carts. All of which have been
bought up and made into drag and schlock rod engines today. They were
reliable but they were 250-300 hp engines tops and they weighed close
to a thousand pounds.
The 440 was a great engine. There are still a lot of them in boats but
older working boats made with them are usually repowered with diesel,
have been for years.
The Unlimited hydro idiots bought Allison 1710s by the trainload, used
them up like popcorn and scrapped them. When the old castings and
cranks got scarce they changed the rules and are now all running
surplus runout Lycoming turboshafts, rather than paying to build new
Allison stuff. The V12 Packard you are talking of is either the PT boat
engine, which has never been used in marine racing to my knowledge, or
the V-1650-9A Packard license built RR Merlin, of which a few were, but
the two stage two speed blower was a disadvantage.
07-19-2005, 01:02 AM
#42
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Re: LT1 Wrangler For Sale in Arizona (repost)
>
> For example somewhere around 1970 one of the car magazines went around to
> the Chrysler, Plymouth, and Dodge dealers and took standard 'demonstrators'
> for a test ride to their local speed shop.
>
> The Hemi engines rated at 425 hp by Chrysler all put out 500+ horsepower on
> the dynos and the engines had not even been broken in.
>
> Those weren't HP versions, they were the engines that our parents (the
> current generations grand and great grand parents) had in their Imperials
> and Furies, and Coronets...
Tee hee hee hee hee!
Everyone now knows that the Big Three all had spies in the car
magazines and many of the "demonstrators" were tweaked ringers. If the
majority of standard production cars had these engines they wouldnt
have been able to run on standard pump gas and would had a hell of a
lot of warranty claims on transmissions, axles and driveshafts.
07-19-2005, 01:02 AM
#43
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Re: LT1 Wrangler For Sale in Arizona (repost)
>
> For example somewhere around 1970 one of the car magazines went around to
> the Chrysler, Plymouth, and Dodge dealers and took standard 'demonstrators'
> for a test ride to their local speed shop.
>
> The Hemi engines rated at 425 hp by Chrysler all put out 500+ horsepower on
> the dynos and the engines had not even been broken in.
>
> Those weren't HP versions, they were the engines that our parents (the
> current generations grand and great grand parents) had in their Imperials
> and Furies, and Coronets...
Tee hee hee hee hee!
Everyone now knows that the Big Three all had spies in the car
magazines and many of the "demonstrators" were tweaked ringers. If the
majority of standard production cars had these engines they wouldnt
have been able to run on standard pump gas and would had a hell of a
lot of warranty claims on transmissions, axles and driveshafts.
07-19-2005, 01:02 AM
#44
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Re: LT1 Wrangler For Sale in Arizona (repost)
>
> For example somewhere around 1970 one of the car magazines went around to
> the Chrysler, Plymouth, and Dodge dealers and took standard 'demonstrators'
> for a test ride to their local speed shop.
>
> The Hemi engines rated at 425 hp by Chrysler all put out 500+ horsepower on
> the dynos and the engines had not even been broken in.
>
> Those weren't HP versions, they were the engines that our parents (the
> current generations grand and great grand parents) had in their Imperials
> and Furies, and Coronets...
Tee hee hee hee hee!
Everyone now knows that the Big Three all had spies in the car
magazines and many of the "demonstrators" were tweaked ringers. If the
majority of standard production cars had these engines they wouldnt
have been able to run on standard pump gas and would had a hell of a
lot of warranty claims on transmissions, axles and driveshafts.
07-19-2005, 01:02 AM
#45
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Re: LT1 Wrangler For Sale in Arizona (repost)
>
> For example somewhere around 1970 one of the car magazines went around to
> the Chrysler, Plymouth, and Dodge dealers and took standard 'demonstrators'
> for a test ride to their local speed shop.
>
> The Hemi engines rated at 425 hp by Chrysler all put out 500+ horsepower on
> the dynos and the engines had not even been broken in.
>
> Those weren't HP versions, they were the engines that our parents (the
> current generations grand and great grand parents) had in their Imperials
> and Furies, and Coronets...
Tee hee hee hee hee!
Everyone now knows that the Big Three all had spies in the car
magazines and many of the "demonstrators" were tweaked ringers. If the
majority of standard production cars had these engines they wouldnt
have been able to run on standard pump gas and would had a hell of a
lot of warranty claims on transmissions, axles and driveshafts.
07-19-2005, 02:09 AM
#46
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Re: LT1 Wrangler For Sale in Arizona (repost)
These were not the cars provided by the manufacturers, they were picked up
at the local dealer just the same as the car you would have test drove.
I recall the article mentioning that because some of the manufacturers
would, as you describe, provide cars that were 'doctored' with non standard
equipment or mislabeled engines (i.e. a Nova with 305 stickers on the air
cleaner that was obviously a ss350).
When Chrysler Corp extended their warranty to 5 years they did have a lot of
claims but I don't think that ... reliability... was any different than any
other car of the era. In the mid-later 70's all cars were garbage and that
really did not improve till the later 80's when the US manufacturers finally
went to multi-port fuel injection.
My '86 T-Bird with throttle body injection had the same engine but with 50%
less power compared with my elder daughter's MPI '88 Cougar.
As bad as reliability was in American cars if you had a foreign car it was a
joke (or you were a hippie and drove a VW) Being 'Made in America" used to
mean it was a quality product and "Made in Japan's meant it was junk.
Things changed as the Asians learned quickly that Americans wanted larger
and more powerful cars that were dependable. Detroit met that challenge by
engineering and designing ugly cars that could not me made to run right
unless you broke off the limiter caps, drilled out the lead plug, adjusted
the carburetor to run on the cra**y gas they were now selling, and the
replaced the limiter cap with one available at any auto parts store so it
would pass the visual portion of the emissions test.
This was, of course, illegal but a 'real mechanic' (as opposed to a
technician) could get cars to run but not stay within the letter of the law.
We can check with Bill as to the particulars as it was in this era that he
ran the Chevron Garage.
PS
Who remembers the Honda 600?
<calcerise@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1121747397.181558.40120@f14g2000cwb.googlegro ups.com...
>
>
>>
>> For example somewhere around 1970 one of the car magazines went around to
>> the Chrysler, Plymouth, and Dodge dealers and took standard
>> 'demonstrators'
>> for a test ride to their local speed shop.
>>
>> The Hemi engines rated at 425 hp by Chrysler all put out 500+ horsepower
>> on
>> the dynos and the engines had not even been broken in.
>>
>> Those weren't HP versions, they were the engines that our parents (the
>> current generations grand and great grand parents) had in their Imperials
>> and Furies, and Coronets...
>
> Tee hee hee hee hee!
>
> Everyone now knows that the Big Three all had spies in the car
> magazines and many of the "demonstrators" were tweaked ringers. If the
> majority of standard production cars had these engines they wouldnt
> have been able to run on standard pump gas and would had a hell of a
> lot of warranty claims on transmissions, axles and driveshafts.
>
at the local dealer just the same as the car you would have test drove.
I recall the article mentioning that because some of the manufacturers
would, as you describe, provide cars that were 'doctored' with non standard
equipment or mislabeled engines (i.e. a Nova with 305 stickers on the air
cleaner that was obviously a ss350).
When Chrysler Corp extended their warranty to 5 years they did have a lot of
claims but I don't think that ... reliability... was any different than any
other car of the era. In the mid-later 70's all cars were garbage and that
really did not improve till the later 80's when the US manufacturers finally
went to multi-port fuel injection.
My '86 T-Bird with throttle body injection had the same engine but with 50%
less power compared with my elder daughter's MPI '88 Cougar.
As bad as reliability was in American cars if you had a foreign car it was a
joke (or you were a hippie and drove a VW) Being 'Made in America" used to
mean it was a quality product and "Made in Japan's meant it was junk.
Things changed as the Asians learned quickly that Americans wanted larger
and more powerful cars that were dependable. Detroit met that challenge by
engineering and designing ugly cars that could not me made to run right
unless you broke off the limiter caps, drilled out the lead plug, adjusted
the carburetor to run on the cra**y gas they were now selling, and the
replaced the limiter cap with one available at any auto parts store so it
would pass the visual portion of the emissions test.
This was, of course, illegal but a 'real mechanic' (as opposed to a
technician) could get cars to run but not stay within the letter of the law.
We can check with Bill as to the particulars as it was in this era that he
ran the Chevron Garage.
PS
Who remembers the Honda 600?
<calcerise@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1121747397.181558.40120@f14g2000cwb.googlegro ups.com...
>
>
>>
>> For example somewhere around 1970 one of the car magazines went around to
>> the Chrysler, Plymouth, and Dodge dealers and took standard
>> 'demonstrators'
>> for a test ride to their local speed shop.
>>
>> The Hemi engines rated at 425 hp by Chrysler all put out 500+ horsepower
>> on
>> the dynos and the engines had not even been broken in.
>>
>> Those weren't HP versions, they were the engines that our parents (the
>> current generations grand and great grand parents) had in their Imperials
>> and Furies, and Coronets...
>
> Tee hee hee hee hee!
>
> Everyone now knows that the Big Three all had spies in the car
> magazines and many of the "demonstrators" were tweaked ringers. If the
> majority of standard production cars had these engines they wouldnt
> have been able to run on standard pump gas and would had a hell of a
> lot of warranty claims on transmissions, axles and driveshafts.
>
07-19-2005, 02:09 AM
#47
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Re: LT1 Wrangler For Sale in Arizona (repost)
These were not the cars provided by the manufacturers, they were picked up
at the local dealer just the same as the car you would have test drove.
I recall the article mentioning that because some of the manufacturers
would, as you describe, provide cars that were 'doctored' with non standard
equipment or mislabeled engines (i.e. a Nova with 305 stickers on the air
cleaner that was obviously a ss350).
When Chrysler Corp extended their warranty to 5 years they did have a lot of
claims but I don't think that ... reliability... was any different than any
other car of the era. In the mid-later 70's all cars were garbage and that
really did not improve till the later 80's when the US manufacturers finally
went to multi-port fuel injection.
My '86 T-Bird with throttle body injection had the same engine but with 50%
less power compared with my elder daughter's MPI '88 Cougar.
As bad as reliability was in American cars if you had a foreign car it was a
joke (or you were a hippie and drove a VW) Being 'Made in America" used to
mean it was a quality product and "Made in Japan's meant it was junk.
Things changed as the Asians learned quickly that Americans wanted larger
and more powerful cars that were dependable. Detroit met that challenge by
engineering and designing ugly cars that could not me made to run right
unless you broke off the limiter caps, drilled out the lead plug, adjusted
the carburetor to run on the cra**y gas they were now selling, and the
replaced the limiter cap with one available at any auto parts store so it
would pass the visual portion of the emissions test.
This was, of course, illegal but a 'real mechanic' (as opposed to a
technician) could get cars to run but not stay within the letter of the law.
We can check with Bill as to the particulars as it was in this era that he
ran the Chevron Garage.
PS
Who remembers the Honda 600?
<calcerise@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1121747397.181558.40120@f14g2000cwb.googlegro ups.com...
>
>
>>
>> For example somewhere around 1970 one of the car magazines went around to
>> the Chrysler, Plymouth, and Dodge dealers and took standard
>> 'demonstrators'
>> for a test ride to their local speed shop.
>>
>> The Hemi engines rated at 425 hp by Chrysler all put out 500+ horsepower
>> on
>> the dynos and the engines had not even been broken in.
>>
>> Those weren't HP versions, they were the engines that our parents (the
>> current generations grand and great grand parents) had in their Imperials
>> and Furies, and Coronets...
>
> Tee hee hee hee hee!
>
> Everyone now knows that the Big Three all had spies in the car
> magazines and many of the "demonstrators" were tweaked ringers. If the
> majority of standard production cars had these engines they wouldnt
> have been able to run on standard pump gas and would had a hell of a
> lot of warranty claims on transmissions, axles and driveshafts.
>
at the local dealer just the same as the car you would have test drove.
I recall the article mentioning that because some of the manufacturers
would, as you describe, provide cars that were 'doctored' with non standard
equipment or mislabeled engines (i.e. a Nova with 305 stickers on the air
cleaner that was obviously a ss350).
When Chrysler Corp extended their warranty to 5 years they did have a lot of
claims but I don't think that ... reliability... was any different than any
other car of the era. In the mid-later 70's all cars were garbage and that
really did not improve till the later 80's when the US manufacturers finally
went to multi-port fuel injection.
My '86 T-Bird with throttle body injection had the same engine but with 50%
less power compared with my elder daughter's MPI '88 Cougar.
As bad as reliability was in American cars if you had a foreign car it was a
joke (or you were a hippie and drove a VW) Being 'Made in America" used to
mean it was a quality product and "Made in Japan's meant it was junk.
Things changed as the Asians learned quickly that Americans wanted larger
and more powerful cars that were dependable. Detroit met that challenge by
engineering and designing ugly cars that could not me made to run right
unless you broke off the limiter caps, drilled out the lead plug, adjusted
the carburetor to run on the cra**y gas they were now selling, and the
replaced the limiter cap with one available at any auto parts store so it
would pass the visual portion of the emissions test.
This was, of course, illegal but a 'real mechanic' (as opposed to a
technician) could get cars to run but not stay within the letter of the law.
We can check with Bill as to the particulars as it was in this era that he
ran the Chevron Garage.
PS
Who remembers the Honda 600?
<calcerise@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1121747397.181558.40120@f14g2000cwb.googlegro ups.com...
>
>
>>
>> For example somewhere around 1970 one of the car magazines went around to
>> the Chrysler, Plymouth, and Dodge dealers and took standard
>> 'demonstrators'
>> for a test ride to their local speed shop.
>>
>> The Hemi engines rated at 425 hp by Chrysler all put out 500+ horsepower
>> on
>> the dynos and the engines had not even been broken in.
>>
>> Those weren't HP versions, they were the engines that our parents (the
>> current generations grand and great grand parents) had in their Imperials
>> and Furies, and Coronets...
>
> Tee hee hee hee hee!
>
> Everyone now knows that the Big Three all had spies in the car
> magazines and many of the "demonstrators" were tweaked ringers. If the
> majority of standard production cars had these engines they wouldnt
> have been able to run on standard pump gas and would had a hell of a
> lot of warranty claims on transmissions, axles and driveshafts.
>
07-19-2005, 02:09 AM
#48
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Re: LT1 Wrangler For Sale in Arizona (repost)
These were not the cars provided by the manufacturers, they were picked up
at the local dealer just the same as the car you would have test drove.
I recall the article mentioning that because some of the manufacturers
would, as you describe, provide cars that were 'doctored' with non standard
equipment or mislabeled engines (i.e. a Nova with 305 stickers on the air
cleaner that was obviously a ss350).
When Chrysler Corp extended their warranty to 5 years they did have a lot of
claims but I don't think that ... reliability... was any different than any
other car of the era. In the mid-later 70's all cars were garbage and that
really did not improve till the later 80's when the US manufacturers finally
went to multi-port fuel injection.
My '86 T-Bird with throttle body injection had the same engine but with 50%
less power compared with my elder daughter's MPI '88 Cougar.
As bad as reliability was in American cars if you had a foreign car it was a
joke (or you were a hippie and drove a VW) Being 'Made in America" used to
mean it was a quality product and "Made in Japan's meant it was junk.
Things changed as the Asians learned quickly that Americans wanted larger
and more powerful cars that were dependable. Detroit met that challenge by
engineering and designing ugly cars that could not me made to run right
unless you broke off the limiter caps, drilled out the lead plug, adjusted
the carburetor to run on the cra**y gas they were now selling, and the
replaced the limiter cap with one available at any auto parts store so it
would pass the visual portion of the emissions test.
This was, of course, illegal but a 'real mechanic' (as opposed to a
technician) could get cars to run but not stay within the letter of the law.
We can check with Bill as to the particulars as it was in this era that he
ran the Chevron Garage.
PS
Who remembers the Honda 600?
<calcerise@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1121747397.181558.40120@f14g2000cwb.googlegro ups.com...
>
>
>>
>> For example somewhere around 1970 one of the car magazines went around to
>> the Chrysler, Plymouth, and Dodge dealers and took standard
>> 'demonstrators'
>> for a test ride to their local speed shop.
>>
>> The Hemi engines rated at 425 hp by Chrysler all put out 500+ horsepower
>> on
>> the dynos and the engines had not even been broken in.
>>
>> Those weren't HP versions, they were the engines that our parents (the
>> current generations grand and great grand parents) had in their Imperials
>> and Furies, and Coronets...
>
> Tee hee hee hee hee!
>
> Everyone now knows that the Big Three all had spies in the car
> magazines and many of the "demonstrators" were tweaked ringers. If the
> majority of standard production cars had these engines they wouldnt
> have been able to run on standard pump gas and would had a hell of a
> lot of warranty claims on transmissions, axles and driveshafts.
>
at the local dealer just the same as the car you would have test drove.
I recall the article mentioning that because some of the manufacturers
would, as you describe, provide cars that were 'doctored' with non standard
equipment or mislabeled engines (i.e. a Nova with 305 stickers on the air
cleaner that was obviously a ss350).
When Chrysler Corp extended their warranty to 5 years they did have a lot of
claims but I don't think that ... reliability... was any different than any
other car of the era. In the mid-later 70's all cars were garbage and that
really did not improve till the later 80's when the US manufacturers finally
went to multi-port fuel injection.
My '86 T-Bird with throttle body injection had the same engine but with 50%
less power compared with my elder daughter's MPI '88 Cougar.
As bad as reliability was in American cars if you had a foreign car it was a
joke (or you were a hippie and drove a VW) Being 'Made in America" used to
mean it was a quality product and "Made in Japan's meant it was junk.
Things changed as the Asians learned quickly that Americans wanted larger
and more powerful cars that were dependable. Detroit met that challenge by
engineering and designing ugly cars that could not me made to run right
unless you broke off the limiter caps, drilled out the lead plug, adjusted
the carburetor to run on the cra**y gas they were now selling, and the
replaced the limiter cap with one available at any auto parts store so it
would pass the visual portion of the emissions test.
This was, of course, illegal but a 'real mechanic' (as opposed to a
technician) could get cars to run but not stay within the letter of the law.
We can check with Bill as to the particulars as it was in this era that he
ran the Chevron Garage.
PS
Who remembers the Honda 600?
<calcerise@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1121747397.181558.40120@f14g2000cwb.googlegro ups.com...
>
>
>>
>> For example somewhere around 1970 one of the car magazines went around to
>> the Chrysler, Plymouth, and Dodge dealers and took standard
>> 'demonstrators'
>> for a test ride to their local speed shop.
>>
>> The Hemi engines rated at 425 hp by Chrysler all put out 500+ horsepower
>> on
>> the dynos and the engines had not even been broken in.
>>
>> Those weren't HP versions, they were the engines that our parents (the
>> current generations grand and great grand parents) had in their Imperials
>> and Furies, and Coronets...
>
> Tee hee hee hee hee!
>
> Everyone now knows that the Big Three all had spies in the car
> magazines and many of the "demonstrators" were tweaked ringers. If the
> majority of standard production cars had these engines they wouldnt
> have been able to run on standard pump gas and would had a hell of a
> lot of warranty claims on transmissions, axles and driveshafts.
>
07-19-2005, 02:09 AM
#49
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Re: LT1 Wrangler For Sale in Arizona (repost)
These were not the cars provided by the manufacturers, they were picked up
at the local dealer just the same as the car you would have test drove.
I recall the article mentioning that because some of the manufacturers
would, as you describe, provide cars that were 'doctored' with non standard
equipment or mislabeled engines (i.e. a Nova with 305 stickers on the air
cleaner that was obviously a ss350).
When Chrysler Corp extended their warranty to 5 years they did have a lot of
claims but I don't think that ... reliability... was any different than any
other car of the era. In the mid-later 70's all cars were garbage and that
really did not improve till the later 80's when the US manufacturers finally
went to multi-port fuel injection.
My '86 T-Bird with throttle body injection had the same engine but with 50%
less power compared with my elder daughter's MPI '88 Cougar.
As bad as reliability was in American cars if you had a foreign car it was a
joke (or you were a hippie and drove a VW) Being 'Made in America" used to
mean it was a quality product and "Made in Japan's meant it was junk.
Things changed as the Asians learned quickly that Americans wanted larger
and more powerful cars that were dependable. Detroit met that challenge by
engineering and designing ugly cars that could not me made to run right
unless you broke off the limiter caps, drilled out the lead plug, adjusted
the carburetor to run on the cra**y gas they were now selling, and the
replaced the limiter cap with one available at any auto parts store so it
would pass the visual portion of the emissions test.
This was, of course, illegal but a 'real mechanic' (as opposed to a
technician) could get cars to run but not stay within the letter of the law.
We can check with Bill as to the particulars as it was in this era that he
ran the Chevron Garage.
PS
Who remembers the Honda 600?
<calcerise@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1121747397.181558.40120@f14g2000cwb.googlegro ups.com...
>
>
>>
>> For example somewhere around 1970 one of the car magazines went around to
>> the Chrysler, Plymouth, and Dodge dealers and took standard
>> 'demonstrators'
>> for a test ride to their local speed shop.
>>
>> The Hemi engines rated at 425 hp by Chrysler all put out 500+ horsepower
>> on
>> the dynos and the engines had not even been broken in.
>>
>> Those weren't HP versions, they were the engines that our parents (the
>> current generations grand and great grand parents) had in their Imperials
>> and Furies, and Coronets...
>
> Tee hee hee hee hee!
>
> Everyone now knows that the Big Three all had spies in the car
> magazines and many of the "demonstrators" were tweaked ringers. If the
> majority of standard production cars had these engines they wouldnt
> have been able to run on standard pump gas and would had a hell of a
> lot of warranty claims on transmissions, axles and driveshafts.
>
at the local dealer just the same as the car you would have test drove.
I recall the article mentioning that because some of the manufacturers
would, as you describe, provide cars that were 'doctored' with non standard
equipment or mislabeled engines (i.e. a Nova with 305 stickers on the air
cleaner that was obviously a ss350).
When Chrysler Corp extended their warranty to 5 years they did have a lot of
claims but I don't think that ... reliability... was any different than any
other car of the era. In the mid-later 70's all cars were garbage and that
really did not improve till the later 80's when the US manufacturers finally
went to multi-port fuel injection.
My '86 T-Bird with throttle body injection had the same engine but with 50%
less power compared with my elder daughter's MPI '88 Cougar.
As bad as reliability was in American cars if you had a foreign car it was a
joke (or you were a hippie and drove a VW) Being 'Made in America" used to
mean it was a quality product and "Made in Japan's meant it was junk.
Things changed as the Asians learned quickly that Americans wanted larger
and more powerful cars that were dependable. Detroit met that challenge by
engineering and designing ugly cars that could not me made to run right
unless you broke off the limiter caps, drilled out the lead plug, adjusted
the carburetor to run on the cra**y gas they were now selling, and the
replaced the limiter cap with one available at any auto parts store so it
would pass the visual portion of the emissions test.
This was, of course, illegal but a 'real mechanic' (as opposed to a
technician) could get cars to run but not stay within the letter of the law.
We can check with Bill as to the particulars as it was in this era that he
ran the Chevron Garage.
PS
Who remembers the Honda 600?
<calcerise@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1121747397.181558.40120@f14g2000cwb.googlegro ups.com...
>
>
>>
>> For example somewhere around 1970 one of the car magazines went around to
>> the Chrysler, Plymouth, and Dodge dealers and took standard
>> 'demonstrators'
>> for a test ride to their local speed shop.
>>
>> The Hemi engines rated at 425 hp by Chrysler all put out 500+ horsepower
>> on
>> the dynos and the engines had not even been broken in.
>>
>> Those weren't HP versions, they were the engines that our parents (the
>> current generations grand and great grand parents) had in their Imperials
>> and Furies, and Coronets...
>
> Tee hee hee hee hee!
>
> Everyone now knows that the Big Three all had spies in the car
> magazines and many of the "demonstrators" were tweaked ringers. If the
> majority of standard production cars had these engines they wouldnt
> have been able to run on standard pump gas and would had a hell of a
> lot of warranty claims on transmissions, axles and driveshafts.
>
07-19-2005, 02:56 AM
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Re: LT1 Wrangler For Sale in Arizona (repost)
Ford took the Shelby AC Cobra:
http://www.pacificsites.com/~brooke/CSX3282.shtml and GT 40:
http://www.motortrend.com/future/con...112_0201_gt40/ to Europe and
won everything in sight.
Chrysler's '51 Hemi in hard block form is putting out over twelve
thousand horsepower that propels our dragster to over three hundred and
thirty miles an hour in four seconds:
http://www.nhra.com/wklynews/news5-22-98_2.html
God Bless America, ßill O|||||||O
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calcerise@hotmail.com wrote:
>
> A few of the limited production engines did have the horsepower, but
> they were job-shop-built, wild cam, high compression engines that
> needed very high octane fuel and in most cases were not capable of 29"
> Hg manifold pressure operation for more than 2 to 10 hours (even if oil
> and coolant temps were magically controlled) before extremely loud
> noises occurred and smoke, flames and oil went everywhere.
>
> The much storied 426 Hemi ("Race Hemi", "late Hemi", whatever...) was
> such an engine. It excelled at NASCAR in its day, thereafter in nitro
> burning dragsters with 100% power TBO of something like seven seconds.
> But you know why they were never used in marine applications? The
> valvetrain was good for a hundred hours, maybe, even at the 350-400 hp
> mark, and at 500 hp the lower end had maybe fifteen good hours.
> Monteverdi built a sports car called a Hai, with the Hemi, and few were
> built-they _could not_ make the Hemi live on the Autobahn for more than
> maybe ten thousand miles. Jensen would have nothing whatever to do with
> the Hemi.
>
> The "side oiler" Ford 427 is another deal. External oil pipes went out
> with the OX-5 and Isadora Duncan era Bugattis-it was a kluge, a patch
> to save Ford the trouble of making new patterns and core boxes to do it
> right.
>
> There were Americans who "did it right" and who the Europeans learned
> from-names like MIller, Goossen, Meyer-Drake, Rentschler, Allison come
> to mind-but they had nothing to do with mass production poop out of
> Detroit. Let's call a spade a spade here.
http://www.pacificsites.com/~brooke/CSX3282.shtml and GT 40:
http://www.motortrend.com/future/con...112_0201_gt40/ to Europe and
won everything in sight.
Chrysler's '51 Hemi in hard block form is putting out over twelve
thousand horsepower that propels our dragster to over three hundred and
thirty miles an hour in four seconds:
http://www.nhra.com/wklynews/news5-22-98_2.html
God Bless America, ßill O|||||||O
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calcerise@hotmail.com wrote:
>
> A few of the limited production engines did have the horsepower, but
> they were job-shop-built, wild cam, high compression engines that
> needed very high octane fuel and in most cases were not capable of 29"
> Hg manifold pressure operation for more than 2 to 10 hours (even if oil
> and coolant temps were magically controlled) before extremely loud
> noises occurred and smoke, flames and oil went everywhere.
>
> The much storied 426 Hemi ("Race Hemi", "late Hemi", whatever...) was
> such an engine. It excelled at NASCAR in its day, thereafter in nitro
> burning dragsters with 100% power TBO of something like seven seconds.
> But you know why they were never used in marine applications? The
> valvetrain was good for a hundred hours, maybe, even at the 350-400 hp
> mark, and at 500 hp the lower end had maybe fifteen good hours.
> Monteverdi built a sports car called a Hai, with the Hemi, and few were
> built-they _could not_ make the Hemi live on the Autobahn for more than
> maybe ten thousand miles. Jensen would have nothing whatever to do with
> the Hemi.
>
> The "side oiler" Ford 427 is another deal. External oil pipes went out
> with the OX-5 and Isadora Duncan era Bugattis-it was a kluge, a patch
> to save Ford the trouble of making new patterns and core boxes to do it
> right.
>
> There were Americans who "did it right" and who the Europeans learned
> from-names like MIller, Goossen, Meyer-Drake, Rentschler, Allison come
> to mind-but they had nothing to do with mass production poop out of
> Detroit. Let's call a spade a spade here.