Ya oughta do it. We gotta keep those early hemis
on stage.
Dick J
--- Richard Fox <v4gr@rcn.com> wrote:
> 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?
> >>
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