Showing posts with label hemi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hemi. Show all posts

Sunday, January 9, 2011

Sunday, November 7, 2010

The Derelict DeSoto of Jonathan Ward, DeSoto front on a '52 Chrysler Town and Country custom wagon

Exterior is rat rod, genuine aged US steel and paint.


The engine is a new Hemi, and has vintage 392 era valve covers covering the new stuff. Sweet touch!
The lug nuts appear to be 1/2 inch or 9/16ths sockets... cool idea I've never seen anyone realize before.

Awesome interior

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Sunday, July 11, 2010

Appropriate intake cover

the eyes are functional butterflies



From http://blog.cardomain.com/2010/06/29/the-defibrillator/ where you can see the whole gallery and get a full desription

Saturday, July 10, 2010

the simple beauty of the Hemi racing engine in a slingshot dragster






This is the kind of wallpaper I like, I make it myself and know it's what I'm going to use it for when I took these photos

Thursday, January 28, 2010

just how fast was a stock hemi Plymouth Satellite?


Or maybe the speed record was 164 mph, depends on the source of info
Just how stock was it? A hemi, yeah, they wouldn't have super tuned that on a dyno, upgraded the guts a little? Dropped to the tallest highway gears available in a 8 3/4 or Dana 60 which were 2.93 and 3.23... maybe aluminum panels? Headers? Hell, I can see the roll cage, so it was prepped for the salt high speed.
Well, how about that, a little diggin around on the internet turns up that is was a prototype Satellite, the first street hemi to be installed, with special fuel injection ste ups and dry sumps, and the project was shepherded by Peter Dawson a Chrysler factory engineer who shared a garage with Tom Hoover (father of the 426 hemi) and a variety of rear axle ratios were brought along, http://www.moparmagazine.com/2009/may_june/grassroots_engineering