Projects Anybody got a slant 6 in their ride?

The owner is from Central Florida and he and his wife put MILES and MILES on this neat little car. Gary

 

Ive got one on a 77 Dodge truck frame with 3 speed tran.Didnt scrap the motor/trans cause it ran sooooooo good.Ijust need the front end of truck frame.Ihope i dont have to scrap it,maybe some will pay scrap price for it.............................YG

 

They made the aluminum block almost 3 years. Check this out.

http://www.slantsix.org/articles/dutra-blocks/alm-block-sl6.htm

 

Back in the early 60's I built a lot of headers, I built a set for a Valiant, that the guy was talking about me building an Intake manifold for. after he drove it with the headers, it was so much better that he passed on the intake.

 

Dad had a '60 Plymouth Savoy with a slant six.
He said on rainy days he would bum a ride to work because he knew it wouldn't start! If we were stopped at a red light and someone spit on the sidewalk near the car he swore that it would stumble for a moment.
Of course that was the first year and all first year engines have growing pains.
Still a great engine to this day, once it was sorted out.

 

I've got a slant 6 in my dreams..

 

There is a slant in my Plymouth.

 

SLANT POWER!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ckoya9wcTKA

Roger

 

I had a professor in college that had an early 60's ex "Trans AM" car with a slant 6 engine that had all kinds of interesting speed equipment on it. Sadly, he loaned it to a student who traded it in on a new car without telling him and never got it back. He was pissed about it too as I guess it was pretty rare. Gary

 

I had one in an 87 Dodge 4x4 (total turd). It sounded like a diesel going down the road with all the noise coming from it. I don't think think the 225 is anywhere as tough as the good ole 300 six

 

Guzzi Mark (madmax/6)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AN7wvw8cE6Y&feature=player_detailpage

 

My Dad had a new one ,leaked oil,not much power in a Valent that the floor shifter fell over on the floor if ya shifted it fast,and that was a new car.
Still it could of been great if they had enough brains to of made it slant to the other side[left not right],could of had a good racing balance in ovel track 6 cars,but they built it the wrong way.

 

The hyperpack slant six Valiants beat up on the Falcons and Corvairs so hard that Nascar had to discontinue their "Compact" class racing series. Pretty good for an engine that slants the wrong way.

 

The comparison should be made between the 200 cid Ford and the slant Mopar.
Fords 300 six was never available for or even considered as a car engine.

Don't get me wrong...the 300 is a tough, powerful engine and has the cubes besides...but the build intent was as a high torque truck powerplant and they won't even easily fit under the hood of most cars of the era.

225's are car engines that were pushed into use in trucks as well...where they served the purpose as the base engine.
Truck weight + cargo load + add the drag of 4x4 as well = turd.
It's only 225 cid!!!

 

we had chevy ,ford, and mopar 6,s in co. cars and got good mileage at of all of them with the right manit. my buddy percy built a nos system for a 62 dodge with a slant six for his son that ran good

 

I've put this up before but it's in good company here.
It's a keeper, goes like hell and sounds good doing it.

 

That is a great looking slant 6! Is the air filter housing a RR V8 rocker cover?

 

Yeah it is, I don't know what vintage, but quite old I believe. It was painted black in some type of paint that stripper had next to no effect on.I had to go postal with a wire wheel and fine sandpaper finished with 3M pads.

 

That valve cover is from the 60's or 70's. It's off a 412 v-8

 

would love to have a intake setup like that on mine.

 

OK reminiscing time. When I came back from an overseas assignment for the USAF in 1965 I had planned to buy my neighbors 53 Corvette. He was a test pilot and just used the thing for an a-b car. They were not really collectible then. Well turns out his wife took it to the local Chevy dealer and traded it in on a 66 Caprice convert without his knowledge. They gave her $500. I was prepared to pay him $900. Long story short I was in need of a car and my parents sold me their 1962 Lancer GT. It had an aluminum block 225 with a push button Torqueflight. After learning about the factory Hyperpack version of slant 6's I decided to see what I could do. Put some 11.5:1 Jahns pistons, Schneider cam and valve train, Offenhauser 4 barrel intake with a Holley 600 and a Mallory Rev Pol ignition into it with some headers 2.5" exhaust muffled only by a Barracuda S square outlet resonator and man did it go. Finally blew the rear end out of it then the transmission. Repaired both and traded for a bright red 1936 1/2 ton pickup with a 301 Chevy, 3 speed, bucket seats and an 8 track tape and big and littles. That lasted till my soon to be wife announced she wouldn't be dating someone who drove a truck. Sold it and bought a 65 El Camino. It was enough like a car inside that she gave in.

Those were the days. Still think now and then about building another slant 6.

 

wow my sister had a dart back in our high school days! i loved that slant 6 in it! wow i miss that car! always a joy to drive!

 

El Toad.


Cassandra.


Barn Job #18.


Barn Job at Eagle Field (flag start airfield meets), a couple videos.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9rkF9nTcKA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbYguqAG5y4&feature=related



Photo links in my signature.



And one from the history books ..........





..... with a link to a two part article on it.
http://lotuseleven.org/DarkAges1/open_exhaust.htm

 

1948 Ford F1 Panel Truck
225 Slant Dodge Slant Six
4 Barrel Clifford Intake
Clifford Headers

 

According to the e-mails my Argentine pen pals send the Slant 6 is a mainstream hot rod/racing motor down there. V-8s are very rare so they hop up all types of 6s for road racing. They ran a winged [think Plymouth Super Bird] Dodge with a slant 6 that has the longest intake runners I've ever seen.
Perhaps Leo or one of the guys will post some photos.