Hot Rods I guess I like 426 Hemi's now!

I have been building blown Hemi's for a few years with no intention of playing with 426's, but I couldn't resist.


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Sha-bang a Lang a boom boom !

 

o/t here. Really nice engine though.

 

1965?

 

Guess again...

 

First year was '64 I think...??...

 

That is beautiful. If it were mine I would stare at it for days.

 

How's it off topic? 426 came out in '64.

 

big cam, 272* at 0.050"

 

Oh my. Would love to hear that cam- do you know the compression?


-rick

 

Some guys have all the luck!

 

Yep... STX-21 272° .560 in a wedge.
Different rocker ratio in a Hemi.
Ran one in a 440 for years.
My friend Jim here in Maryland owns
Racer Brown. He can re-dress or re-grind that cam if it needs it. Gene.

 

Yep... second half of 1964.
Swept the Max Wedge right under the rug. The first batch had AFB carbs, second ones had Holleys.

 

Possibly OT on HAMB's "traditional" forum, not on the general discussion side.

 

I'd love to know all of the specs of the cam, does he have access to that?

 

So did Chevelles and Mustangs and they are OT

 

Mustangs are Gay!

 

'64 Chevelle/GTO gets a pass, or no?

 

NOPE!

 

Yes he does... give him a call
Jim at Racer Brown
410-866-7660 2-7pm eastern

 

https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/lets-see-those-goats.1317293/#post-15248590

 

NOW I know where all the good hemis went!

 

Or LS engines.

 

500 plus pounds of 20k engine resting on 15 bucks of tubing...

 

500..!!-hell thats an sbc--now THIS one....

 

I have the softback Hemi book. It tells the story of how the 426 came to be. Really crazy story, was developed from paper to Daytona in just a couple months. Chrysler got tired of being killed by big Fords and Chevys in the 60s, decided to bring back the hemi. Discovered they had thrown out all engineering and tooling for the first generation so had to start from scratch. Story gets really crazy from there. Suffice it to say, they shipped 5 engines to Daytona the week before the race, put them in the cars without any testing in a car, let alone race testing, qualified them (hoping they didn't crack all the blocks like they had been doing on the test stand), then went on to win I think 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 5th on race day.

 

I always want to get a hold of some of the plastic lifters they made.

 

Not sure what I am going to do with 4