Dick; my plan for a "D" size hemi always has been a 331 block with a '55 or
'56 Pontiac crank. The Pontiac has a 3.250 stroke and is a near drop in. If
you can clean up the 331 by .050 over you have 304.6 cid which will get you
in "D". And allows big valves compared to the Windsor block. The Windsor
would need sleeves anyway so this is cheaper. Should buzz as well as you can
get the valve train to follow. R. Fox
-----Original Message-----
From: Dick J <lsr_man@yahoo.com>
To: saltracer@awwwsome.com <saltracer@awwwsome.com>
Cc: John Beckett <landspeedracer@email.msn.com>; Joe Amo
<jkamo@rapidnet.com>; LandSpeed Louise Ann Noeth <lanspeed@west.net>;
land-speed@autox.team.net <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Date: Friday, October 06, 2000 01:19 PM
Subject: Re: Early Hemi Red Line
>
>--- "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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