Hemi guys, what's the difference between car engine and Industrial ?

Fork lifts have a hard life A guy jumps on it and I am only going to use it for 5 minutes no need to check the oil or radiator so no one does. Six months later no oil.

 

Man. I would love a job with a hemi powered forklift...

 

Cylinder Walls

 

I have a 1956 331 Industrial that came out of a military generator with a SPEC stamping on it that has a short bellhousing in my model A

 

My Chrysler HEMI Industrial is a '56 w a short bellhousing. I'm pretty sure it spent its early life powering an irrigation pump; as that is quite common around the midwest.
It came as a short-block; so there was "some ***embly required"
The person I bought it from said that the guy that who built it had intended it for a Model T. Zounds !
He was an engine builder that was well respected around here.
It was bored .030 over and came with a new cam, and I'm guessing that it was a standard car engine version.
The intake was for a 4bbl, IDK where that came from but it fit with no problems.

The serial number was stamped on the front of the engine on the driver's side, not on the top rail where one might expect it to be.

A dual-point distributor came with it, but it was worn out. I bought an electronic dist, but then decided to go vintage and adapted one from a 340.
It sure runs nice and sounds great for the short time it was on a test stand.

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It's in the '40 Royal coupe now. Just need to get my **** in gear and finish it.

 

I thought all early hemis came with hardened valve seats. My '53 331 has them and I bought a set of truck heads (bigger ports, valves) I want to adapt to my 331 which I bored 1/8" over making it a 354 and it has them.

 

It is a good bet you will have 7/16 exhaust valve stems.

 

I bought a crate 354 Hemi that had never been started or run. I thought it was a p***enger car engine as it was exactly the same, except the cam was a Industrial grind.

 

Yep. Need need all new guides and valves and of course need to have blocking plates brazed in to narrow those tall water crossover p***ages, and grind off those ugly bosses on the ends of the heads. They were pretty rough when I got them so would have needed that work even if they had good valve stems. All that being said, still better than trying to find and $pay for$ '54 big port 331 heads. Great benefit of truck heads is since they use water instead of exhaust manifold heat, The two inner exhaust ports are not Siamesed with the x-over ports. All things considered, I think they are unrecognized gems for economical 331 or even race car performance heads.

 

51-55 cars had them. After that I'm thinking the 300 & Power Pack only. Think all trucks through 55 did & spotty after that. Never have seen anything on the Ind/Marine hemis.

 

I have seen induction hardened seats and replaceable seats in various applications. No pattern that I have determined. Most heads that have been kicked around awhile will likely have inserts since that is the common rebuild practice these days.

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