Of course its still just a plan. Never actually done it. Rich Fox
-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Fox <v4gr@rcn.com>
To: Dick J <lsr_man@yahoo.com>; 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 02:55 PM
Subject: Re: Early Hemi Red Line
>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?
>>
>>=====
>>* * * * * * * * * * * * * *
>>* Dick J *
>>* (In East Texas) *
>>* # 729 *
>>* C/GRS C/FRS D/STR *
>>* * * * * * * * * * * * * *
>>
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