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Don't know, don't know, don't know, don't know, and don't know. Sorry I can't help you.
Would like to return to the years of the gassers and the acrobatic flagmen.
Both torque converters and fluid couplings were used. The transmission itself was a "regular" manual transmission. Have no idea how the...
Just remembered; Troy found out that the Chrysler flatheads had built in rev limiters. If you over revved, the piston would close the spark plug.
Good question! I went to Transmission Design as my "permanent" assignment after graduation from CIE. There, I helped Bohdan Andrushkiw in the...
That's been the problem since the fifties! Chrysler carried the students until they graduated and then were unable to match the General's offers...
Was just reminded of another bit of trivia. This shows, once again, that I've always been about 5 years too late. I received a patent on a fuel...
I knew about the D501 before I started at Chrysler in '57. I saw Arnie Beswick and his D501 at Cordova. (Later, Arnie drove the Passionate...
Yes, I'd like to know more about this. Never talked to Dan about it.
[IMG] This was an excellent performance manifold and required no modification. (The Hyperpack manifold for the slant six was also an excellent...
[IMG] OK, this is the original long branch manifold and, as I've inferred, it was worthless for racing. The car felt strong, but a conventional...
I'm getting confused. I never really got all the production names straight. We usually talked "short ram" or "long ram" and we understood each...
For the '59 Nationals, we had ordered 12.5:1 pistons from Jahns. Either Jahns or the Ramcharger that ordered them got it wrong. They were more...
In the mid fifties, just before the large "bed" with hydraulic force actuators came into play at all the Proving Grounds, a group of Chevrolet...
I think you're referring to the long ram intake manifold where the inner runner partition has been reduced in length. George Wallace tried to...
Can't recall seeing that first picture before. That's Barnes Daniels next to the manifold, with Maurie Leising beside him. Haven't been able to...
Congratulations on your efforts, which are obviously contributing to the sport. Keep in mind that you want to minimize energy losses that...
https://www.hotrod.com/articles/hrdp-9907-ram-tuning-guide/ This is the link to the Hot Rod article written by the tech editor, Steve Magnante....
Other engineers at Chrysler started the fifties testing of tuned induction systems. A part of their work ended in the H&M. The manifold was...
Nope. We almost had an early Mopar for the club car. The deal was almost finished when somebody let it slip that we were going to use it for...
No, but I had a friend whose wife used to run in those Mobil (?) economy runs. He told me how she would use the vacuum wipers all the time to lean...
Thanks for the Bean Bandit information. I obviously had only a bit of it and much of it was simply wrong. The Jim Jensen of whom I spoke...a tall...
As a Chrysler Institute of Engineering student, I spent a period of time (can't recall exactly how long) in a number of different Chrysler...
No, I was not. Just remembered. A Mopar enthusiast in California told me that the grille of the H&M wasn't "correct" for the rest of the car. I...
Keep in mind that the Ramchargers was originally a car club and that it had absolutely no official connection with Chrysler corporation....
While well-meaning Ramchargers have stated that the speed established by the High and Mighty C/A during the 1959 NHRA Nationals was a national...
The floor of the Road Test Garage at the Chrysler Engineering Center in Highland Park, Michigan had narrow gauge railroad tracks. In the fifties,...
Yes, Chrysler did make a radial engine. In the early years of World War II, Chrysler made a radial engine comprised of 5 flathead car engines....
That reverse flow with tuned manifolding explains why some dyno operators were a bit reluctant to test engines with tuned intake stacks. At...
I mentioned the “cones” at the ends of the “High and Mighty” exhaust pipes. Medical doctors like to dance a little jig and dazzle you with their...
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