Thread: Hemi guys, need your advice.

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Made a little road trip up to the Tampa area today to pickup the 8 inch rear from Vara4. Kurt and his Wife Denise are about as nice of people as you could meet, and I'm sorry to see them leaving Florida in a few months to go to Nevada. I think we could have gotten them to go to Billetproof next October if they were still here.

Couldn't convince Kurt to take any money for the rear end, but he drew the line when I tried to score his built 351 Cleveland. I was just trying to save him from having to move it way out West.

Thanks to both of you for the hospitality. Take care of those 10 Boxer pups, they're real cuties.

Don

Hey Don .... your always trying to help out (LOL). I like your style!!

Working on my crew cab so I can drive down & get bizzy on the '46 this weekend.

Paul

Were your ears burning today Paul? We were talking about you, I was telling Kurt and Denise about how well you treated me on the 46 stuff and Denise said they used to haul out of Atlanta and all the people they knew were great people too.

Glad to see you are finally going to get some work done, pictures, we want pictures. (Bet your camera is dusty, it's been so long. )

Don

Don your 3 hour tour turned in to a 6 or 7 hour tour.HE! HE! HE!
Did we remind you of Gilligan's Island, Here look at this, oh look at this.
You've just gotta see the Puppies, HE! HE! HE! Poor Don.
He didn't know what he was letting himself in for.
You'll have to come back Don, I forgot to show you the pool!!! HE! HE! HE!
Kurt

Nah, I loved spending the time. Thanks again.

Don

Just a little followup on Don's hemi acquisition. This morning he and I tore it down to see what he had to work with. All in all it is in very good condition. Block looks good, rings were frozen in the pistons from sitting, but will be replaced anyway. Heads had some burned valves, and the timing chain was very sloppy. But with some machining and new parts it will make him a good engine for whatever project he decides. Probably will send at least the heads to Hot Heads for reworking. He has to find out if a local shop is capable of machining the block or if it will have to go to Hot Heads too.

Gastrick, were you able to have your hemi machined locally. If we have to toss it into the trunk and take it to your end of the State that would be ok. From everything you said your machining came out right.

Don

a good machine shop can do that engine it not that hard to do .no way close to this thing .i am so happy to be done with all the hard work on this one

Looks tricky and very good work Pat. What exactly is that?

Don

it is a 1937 caddy block i put 3 sleeves in.some crack repair all 16 seats and guids and made the ex valves out of some bbc inconel ex valves that i cut the O.D down on for the stock size and use a bbc 1880 ex for the intake

You really do some fantastic work Pat. I bet you've forgotten more about building engines than most of us will ever learn.

Don

Don Pat is right on the money about any machine shop being able to handle the machine work to include the heads on you Hemi. Machining a Hemi is no different than doing a SBC and should cost no more (the cost of the parts is where the difference is).

As far as the timing set, Mother MOPAR had 2 styles of snouts on the early HEMIs. The early one used thru 1955 and the later style. The late style uses the same timing set as the used in the later small block Mopar’s (318/340/360) which gives you a pretty good range of options for different sets. I see Hot Heads offers the service to convert the snout so it might be something to look into (they also indicate that you need the late timing set to be able to use their water pump conversion.


This post shows the difference in the 2 cam snouts.

http://www.clubhotrod.com/forums/showthread.php?t=27050

While I’m thinking about it I might also suggest that while Don has the crank out he checks to see if it has been drilled for a pilot bearing, and if it hasn’t have it done. The cost shouldn’t be too bad, and it will always give him the option of running a manual transmission down the road.

don you may want to hold on to the lifters .mike may know more about this as some blocks did have over size lifters to fix the block . not sure what year they did this but you can not find them and you would need the old one re faced .or lifter bore s bushed back and that gets $$

thats a nice write up Mike---I remember the days late 60s early 70s on all my road trips of driving with my eyes split wide looking for Chryslers sitting in fields, behind barns----

I've probably killed off more of them than any body on here

Got a 392 about 8 years ago that I'm going to use in a roadster with a hemi/flathead swap back and forth so it seems like I have 2 cars painted/upholstered alike--you know kind of like a animal with 2 heads---(4heads?)

Good point Pat---there was years that Chrysler used different sizes in different holes from the factory and the blocks were stamped with codes along the pan rail (wonder if thats where Honda got that idea?)

Originally Posted by Bob Parmenter

This isn't aimed at anyone in particular, just a general rant against parrots.

I'm a bit late jumping into this thread, Uncle Bob, but as is always the case, your contribution is a good one.

Regarding the "parrots" among us, they gripe the devil out of me, too, and they are particularly annoying when the subject of oil (or any other form of energy, for that matter) comes up.

A couple of current "parrotisms" are "Drill, Baby, Drill!" and "Drill Here, Drill Now!". I hate the fact that these particular parrots are of the same political inclination that I am.

A few politicians, of course, have knowledge about oil production but most don't, and they, like the general public, seem to think that if restraints were lifted, the oil companies would rush right out and start poking holes tomorrow.

Whoopee! Immediate energy independence! 50 cent gas is right around the corner!

It ain't that easy.

In a recent Ed Wallace column (and I don't have it handy) he explains that if somebody wanted to put a platform in the Gulf he would be put on a wait-list for a drill ship for at least four years. Then he'd wait for the platform to be constructed and put in place, and that's not an overnight procedure either. Ed says that oil companies have to look years into the future for a well to go into production.

The present administration wants to rid the world of the curse of coal.

Nuclear, of course, will make us all glow in the dark, so that's out.

Comparatively, solar cells and wind are ineffectual.

We're in deep doo doo.


Jim