--- "Thomas E. Bryant" <saltracer@awwwsome.com>
wrote:
I often think that it would
> be interesting to build a DeSoto again for the
> "D" class. We were
> whipping the Chevys bad at the drags in those
> days,
Thanks for all the good info, Tom. It's
encourageing to know that it wasn't a real exotic
setup that you used to turn in the seven Gs.
As far as building a Desoto "D" for today's
racing - -I guess I'm just old, old, real old
school, but I still believe that there is no head
design better than a hemi, and if you did all the
stuff you do to a sb Chev and had it under a
hemni head, then it would just be that much
better. I don't think the 427 Chev or 427 Ford
held a candle next to a well-tuned 426 Hemi!
I think if you built two 300 inch motors exactly
the same - same bore/stroke, same cam, same
balancing, same everything, and one had a SB Chev
head of choice, and the other had a well-ported
hemi head, then the hemi would be better. I
dunno, maybe it's just part of getting old that
makes me want to believe that.
I've got some of each, SB Chev and hemis. I'm
running the Chev because it's readily available,
cheap and easy. On the other hand, I'm building
the old hemi's out of . . . . . hmmm... love?
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